Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

Anurag Kashyap

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Alan Sugar

Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.

Adrianne Simeone

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

April Winchell

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

Shelley Duvall

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

Vivica A. Fox

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

William Booth

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Woody Hayes

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

Allison Scagliotti

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

Bill Gates

A bad man in Zion City is a good man in Chicago.

American

Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and...

A Clockwork Orange

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it eve...

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply undoing a previous change. They concluded that the increases in worker productivity were not due to better lighti...

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal and the Particular')" ... In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal, she overturns the concepts to which we are accu...

The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that...

Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions About Prayer

If the dog leads the man, the man is blind. If the man leads the dog, the man is married.

Chinese

A young man idle, an old man needy.

English

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

Paula Cole

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.

Lord of the Flies