Top 45 Straighter Quotes
#1. The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.
Bonnie Wright
#3. For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking younger, trimmer, and standing straighter.
Betsy Lerner
#4. With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.
Amitav Ghosh
#5. I sit up straighter and puff out my chest a little bit, unsure why I'm doing so even as I do it. I know when I speak I'll have dropped my voice an octave to make myself seem more manly, and when I shake he hand, my grip will be tight and strong. Stupid, I know, but I'm a guy. It's what we do.
T.J. Klune
#6. When it comes to spinning stories, no one can do it with a straighter face than a cop. "I'm on my way.
Stephen King
#7. I am stronger than when I knew them. I stand straighter. I am more patient. I hold fewer grudges. I am more thankful for what I have, less resentful for what I don't. I am less restless. I read a lot more books. I play the piano. I'm engaged.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#8. As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Isaac Barrow
#9. In the history of show business, there probably never was a straighter straight man than banana-yellow Bert, the paper clip collector and pigeon fancier.
Michael Davis
#10. She held her shoulders straighter, and her breasts were bold.
Ross Macdonald
#11. She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act.
The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion
John Saul
#12. The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
Edwin Louis Cole
#13. Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.
Al R. Young
#14. It is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.
Rosita Forbes
#15. It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.
Martin Henderson
#16. All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
Shakira
#17. she suddenly stood straighter. "He has dismissed me as his Companion, abandoned me just as he did all the other women who loyally served his father as Companions. It is not a shameful distinction. That he has done so speaks of who he is, not what I am."
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Robin Hobb
#18. In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.
Jim Gaffigan
#19. I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Nikolai Gogol
#20. Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown ... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Anna Freud
#21. There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on - you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There's never an end to that striving to get better in golf.
Matt Kuchar
#22. Ooh. British accent alert. I love accents. I sat up straighter to make sure I didn't miss a word.
Heather Davis
#23. What is your name?" Ariane asked him. The kid put up his deflector screens and said, "Einstein." Silence then. When no one laughed, he stood straighter and drifted closer.
Neal Stephenson
#24. The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
Morris L. Ernst
#25. But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud ...
Anna Akhmatova
#26. He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did
Soroosh Shahrivar
#27. I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.
Bill Shankly
#28. He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine.
Ross Turner
#29. There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.
Robin Crow
#30. You know that it never has been easy
Whether you do or do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities
Or stick to some straighter line.
Joni Mitchell
#31. Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.'
Og Mandino
#32. I love creme liner because I have lash extensions and sometimes the liquid liner can get into the lashes. It's also easier to guide. I can create straighter lines with it.
Meagan Good
#33. I laughed, "I don't have a CHANCE IN HELL of ever turning COLE DRIVER GAY. He's straighter than NEIL PATRICK HARRIS.
Giorge Leedy
#34. You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.
Deb Caletti
#36. How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
Oscar Isaac
#37. She laughs again. It's such a delightful and proper sound that I sit up straighter. I should have a cup of tea in my hand to go with that laugh.
Natalie C. Parker
#38. You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.
Diego Klattenhoff
#39. You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
Joseph Conrad
#40. What a trio we are: wolf, dragon and ... " Ronan bit back the word. Shifter. He sat straighter in the saddle, raising one hand in farewell as his mount broke through the last of the boundary mists. "May the gods favor us this time, my friend. Pray Mairi Sinclair is the one.
Maeve Greyson
#41. happiness isn't about the events going on in your life; it's about how you handle them. It's about falling down and standing up straighter than you did before. It's about realizing that nothing comes easy.
Jodie Sweetin
#42. Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.
George Vecsey
#43. wishing my hair was longer and straighter, wishing my skin was lighter, wishing I was someone else, asking God to make me beautiful. These are things I beg my daughter not to inherit.
Key Ballah
#44. Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.
Andy Partridge
#45. If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
Rachel Roy
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