Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures ...

Howard Staunton

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

Neil Innes

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Maya Angelou

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

Paul Shaffer

[first lines] Dorothy: Hi Rose. Rose 'Rosie' Straight: Hi Dorothy. Alvin Straight: [can be heard collapsing inside his house]

The Straight Story

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African

If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.

Chinese

[last lines] Lyle Straight, Alvin's Brother: Did you ride that thing all the way out here to see me? Alvin Straight: I did, Lyle.

The Straight Story

On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawingrooms into the manifold horrors of the First World War.

The Roses of No Man's Land

I believe gay, straight, anybody, everybody's supposed to be happy in this world, man.

Tracy Morgan

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Clifton Fadiman

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Immanuel Kant

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every...

Tom Waits

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

Kesha

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

Oscar Niemeyer

It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.

Sean Combs

Alvin Straight: I want to thank you for your kindness to a stranger. Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: It's been a genuine pleasure having you here, Alvin. Write to us some time. Alvin Straight: I will.

The Straight Story

One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real.

Andy Daly

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

Colin Hanks