Quotes of: Straight-people Keyword

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.

The Good Book Club

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.

High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-or-better for Advan

Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.

High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-or-better for Advan

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

Hagridden

It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

Bossypants

And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight

Betrayals

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

Bill Bryson

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

P. J. Harvey

He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

He tossed a word like a ball, never letting it fall. Instead it swam in the air, without care, strung together with an art that came straight from his heart.

The Address Of Happiness

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

Anna Karenina

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

Along for the Ride

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

American Sniper

Check the couch cushions for change—and hope. I drink my coffee raw, straight out of the ketchup bottle.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

I Served the King of England

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

Just One Day

On sunny days of summer, I am indeed the butterfly; And like the ancient drummer, I rhythm straight towards the sky...

The Rising Lines of Wonderment: Poetry

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

A Room with a View

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming