Straight Shot Quotes

#1. A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

Jack Nicklaus

#2. In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered?

James Franco

#3. To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

Rob Lowe

#4. Maybe life is just a straight shot from the horrors of grade school to the horrors of the nursing home.

Sue Grafton

#5. The road to your destination is not always a straight shot. Sometimes the road splits off into different directions and you have to choose.

L.D. Davis

#6. 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

#7. What a shot! Now tell me Zurov wastes his time making holes in five-kopeck pieces! From forty paces straight into the back of the head, and you have to take the poor light into account.

Boris Akunin

#8. (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

Ira Berkow

#9. She was on the verge of losing when a white smoke shot up from the pile. With no wind to disperse it, the smoke became an unbroken thread rising straight towards the sky. The pile must have caught fire somewhere, but still there was no sign of flames.

Haruki Murakami

#10. I hesitated. Truth shot a sly glance at expediency, expediency waggled its eyebrows significantly, truth made a little noise at the back of its throat, and expediency jumped straight on in there.

Kate Griffin

#11. The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.

Arsene Wenger

#12. Let me get this straight," I said once I was settled securely on the rock. "I was struck by some kind of magical energy sent from Odin that shot out of the lights in the storeroom at Macy's, hitting me and knocking me into a pile of shoes? And because of that, I'm now immortal?

Amanda Carlson

#13. Look, I know you're a guy - " "Damn straight." "And there's some man rule that you've got to be all macho - " "Rule number three, actually." Both of her eyebrows shot up. "Would you just let me finish before I make you cry and break rule number three.

Cindi Madsen

#14. I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. I remember when you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said "who knows the valley song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I watched you going home everyday. Everyday

Suzanne Collins

#15. My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.

Susan Straight

#16. The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes - and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead.

J.K. Rowling

#17. You're just not the type that I go for after all. You're not graceful, you're violent, you don't know what sweet means... We'd probably be fighting non-stop, and I don't think it would work out. That's my straight answer. But! I don't hate you, by a long shot.

Naoshi Komi

#18. Philosophical poetry by moonlight was all right, but guns that shot straight and true were a necessity.

Dan Simmons

#19. A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe. The wind blew straight dashes of rain across the window, which flashed silver as they passed through the light. A single leaf tapped hurriedly, persistently, upon the glass. There was a hurricane out at sea.

Virginia Woolf

#20. Jesus Christ, Noah, it's like you want it to be complicated. Win the girl. Then keep her. Don't let her go. Get it straight. One of us needs to get it right and, out of the two of us, you're the one who has a shot.

Katie McGarry

#21. Guterak looked over. "Hey, you got your hair cut." "Yeah." Remy put the cap back on. "What made you do that?" "I shot myself in the head last night." "Well." Paul drove quietly for a moment, staring straight ahead. "It looks good.

Jess Walter

#22. Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

Megan McCafferty

#23. I kissed someone tonight."
"Good for you. Now go back to sleep."
"It was Wesley...Wesley Rush."
Casey shot straight up in bed. "Whoa!" She shook her head and rubbed the sleep from her wide hazel eyes. "Okay, now I'm awake.

Kody Keplinger

#24. A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

Richard Ayoade

#25. 'Well, I think of you as a straight shooter, Sheriff, but one who can't stop lustin' after the goddamn ineffable.'
"She said that, hunh?"
"Yup."
"Shitfire, Sheriff, what'd you do?"
"Well, I shot her.

Robert Coover

#26. Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

Jojo Moyes

#27. Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.

Mary Doria Russell

#28. another. A single bird flew by at eye level, then shot straight up to the treetops. A grasshopper landed suddenly on my wrist. Creepy magic.

Gillian Flynn

#29. Didn't at least one of them miss when they shot at you?' [Sumi said to Dancer][...] 'Yeah, I always wanted to be that hero in a movie where no one can shoot straight except me. Never happens. I seem to always walk into the school of award-winning sharpshooters.' [Dancer replied.]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. They were thirty feet away - much too far to reach the elevator - but Leo pulled out a screwdriver and chucked it like a throwing knife. An impossible shot. The screwdriver spun straight past Clytius and slammed into the UP button.

Rick Riordan

#31. Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.

Andy Cohen

#32. Springsteen might have been able to tear through my heart, but Mellencamp shot straight through my soul.

Kristen Ashley

#33. When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

James Frey

#34. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Tupac Shakur