Top 100 Straight Line Quotes
#1. Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.
Joey Lawsin
#2. Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.
Rolf Jacobsen
#3. It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest ...
Jan Morris
#5. If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.
Brian Tracy
#7. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
#9. There is no such thing as a straight line, the sun does not go down, and it is time we updated our language. A more mesmerizing discourse I have never heard.
Amy C. Edmondson
#10. It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.
Oscar Niemeyer
#11. I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.
Joe Diffie
#12. Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.
Clive James
#13. For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.
Michael A. Arnzen
#14. A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Mailer
#15. To this day, the behavior of straight men is something I've never been able to wrap my head around. Have you ever met one? They're really weird. Sometimes they want to have sex without A Chorus Line playing in the background. Yuck. How is that even possible?
Kathy Griffin
#16. Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.
Benedict Freedman
#17. When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.
Bruce McGill
#18. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
Chuck Palahniuk
#19. The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes.
Tony Dungy
#20. But I daresay, a lass can't think in a straight line w'out her tea. Sit for a minute. The laird will wait.
Patricia Strefling
#21. Life is not a straight line. It's a spiderweb that twists and tangles. We crawl along our strands until we touch the people who are meant to be in our lives. The strands can knot, as mine did with Lily's, but they don't break, and the unexpected paths are often the best ones.
Stephanie Knipper
#22. A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
C.S. Lewis
#23. You're in a straight line, buddy-boy, and it doesn't lead anywhere ... except maybe the grave.
Edward Albee
#24. A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
George Iles
#25. Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
Jeanette Winterson
#26. When the dancer only moves in a straight line but still manages to travel from one side of the stage to the other with out turning, you know you are in a Mobius Strip club
Ade Bozzay
#27. It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
William Faulkner
#28. She held his stare, waiting for a clue to his intentions - a smile, a nod, even a frown. But he just looked straight at her, his eyes boring holes in her, reaching inside and lighting a fuse line of heat down to her belly. It seemed to last an eternity, that stare.
Maggie LaCroix
#29. We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
Jeanette Winterson
#30. When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?
Douglas Coupland
#31. Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.
Dr. An Wang
#32. At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#33. Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.
Ron Lizzi
#34. I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.
Roxane Gay
#35. This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.
Piet Mondrian
#36. The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
Antoni Gaudi
#37. 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
#38. The differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.
Hans Reichenbach
#39. She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
perhaps the best line from Shooter
Walter Dean Myers
#40. 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
#41. That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.
Euclid
#42. Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
Isaac Newton
#43. A body needs at least
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.
Thomas Bernhard
#44. Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#45. Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.
Patricia MacLachlan
#46. The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
Lurlene McDaniel
#47. No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
Pat Conroy
#48. Her leg, sculptured by the tight sheen of the stocking, its long line running straight, over an arched instep, to the tip of a foot in a high-heeled pump, had a feminine elegance that seemed out of place in the dusty train car ...
Ayn Rand
#49. If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
C.S. Lewis
#50. Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs
the life-line by which the crooked way is made straight.
Shaw Desmond
#51. I knew everything about the back of that head - the swirl of his hair, the curve of his ear, the straight, sharp line of his jaw. I liked the way he smelled like soap even late in the afternoon.
Karen Thompson Walker
#52. Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him
he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
Victor Hugo
#53. It is not proper for man's life to be a circle, she thought, or a string of circles dropping off like zeros behind him - man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum.
Ayn Rand
#54. Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Arthur Eddington
#55. Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#56. 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 called it unjust?
C.S. Lewis
#57. You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.
Frederik Pohl
#58. Seeing into the future is not a straight line. You are given the choice of a hundred paths through a treacherous swamp. Some will lead you safely onwards, others drown you, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which," my mother says.
Cat Hellisen
#59. Remember, child, life is not a straight line. It cycles.
James Rollins
#60. 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
#61. If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?
Nick Carter
#62. I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
Daniel Radcliffe
#63. If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#64. But the motion to keep the planet going in a straight line has no known reason. The reason why things coast for ever has never been found out. The law of inertia has no known origin. Although
Richard Feynman
#65. In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Will Durant
#66. Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.
Kevin Brooks
#67. The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
Pedro Almodovar
#68. Before long the formed into a circle, and neither of them could imagine being a straight line again, caught in the loneliness of blunt severed ends.
Rita Leganski
#69. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.
Elif Shafak
#70. The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#71. On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.
Emile Zola
#72. And when that day comes, it won't matter so much whether every step was in the right direction because life is not a straight line. It will only matter that you took them. That you never let yourself stand still.
Cora Carmack
#73. Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.
Barack Obama
#74. The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
W. Clement Stone
#75. The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.
Daniel Libeskind
#77. Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. Keith Richards on change - "It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.
Jessica Pallington West
#79. Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly.
Asne Seierstad
#80. You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.
Daniel H. Wilson
#81. Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
Albert Einstein
#82. She wanted to cry all the way there, thinking about Neal's sideways symmetrical mouth and the way he could freehand a perfectly straight line.
Rainbow Rowell
#83. A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
Mark Twain
#84. Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.
Arianna Huffington
#86. The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
Victor Hugo
#87. History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.
Cassandra Clare
#88. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.
Margaret Kilgallen
#89. Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.
Alonzo King
#90. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility.
Honore De Balzac
#92. I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.
Diana Gabaldon
#93. She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
Liam Gallagher
#94. Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.
Honore De Balzac
#95. I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.
Marshall Faulk
#96. But let's get one thing straight. I'm not a tool and I'm not a victim. Remember who's putting their ass on the line so you continue to enjoy the right to speak your mind," he told me.
D.H. Cameron
#97. Just as we are not all equally able to carry a tune or draw a straight line, many people simply cannot recognize the gaps in their own knowledge or understand their own inability to construct a logical argument. Education
Thomas M. Nichols
#98. Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise
Cecelia Ahern
#99. If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.
Robert Farrar Capon
#100. So from the age of five to about twenty, religion to me was a matter of 'you do this, and you don't do that, and you do your best to walk the straight line.
Joanna Gaines
