Quotes of: Straight-line Keyword

The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Survivor

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

Max Beckmann

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Liam Gallagher

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Eva Zeisel

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

Earle Brown

The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

Fritz Todt

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Marilyn vos Savant

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

John Spratt

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Survivor

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

Oscar Niemeyer

Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting

Robert Holmes

[first lines] Daniel: [giving instructions to the pallbearers] Just, uh, straight through there and to the left, please.

Death at a Funeral

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I ca...

Mere Christianity

A brick, with its rigid conformity, could be used as a model for how the government wants its citizens to be treated. Every brick in this country is equal, and as such they should be identical, and line up in a straight line and keep quiet. And they ...

Rick Bet Blank

But I daresay, a lass can’t think in a straight line w’out her tea. Sit for a minute. The laird will wait.

Edwina

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

American Gods

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William Whewell

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Ernie Els

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Christopher Hitchens

His hair was shorter than I remembered, tawny in this half-light, the tousled edges casually framing the clean, commanding lines of his face. His mouth, normally so stern was relaxed now and as I stared a slight sweet smile touched his lips, its curv...

Friend or Fae

The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.

Split... Civility For A Divided Nation