Shortest Distance Between Two Points Quotes

#1. For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.

Michael A. Arnzen

#2. English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

Rachel Johnson

#3. The latter think the shortest distance between two points is from a blonde to a bed.

Raymond Chandler

#4. Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

Arthur Miller

#5. Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

Victoria Moran

#6. It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

Lewis Black

#7. As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Bertolt Brecht

#8. A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.

Frances Mayes

#10. Shortest distance between two points is not a straight line - it's a middleman.

Ayn Rand

#11. The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.

Fisher Amelie

#12. Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

Robert Breault

#13. The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

Theodor Adorno

#14. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

Confucius

#15. We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

J.D. Salinger