Straight Line Quotes

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
Christopher Hitchens

Women, Society, Successful

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
Elizabeth Edwards

Down, Cancer, Line

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

Love, Art, Science

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller

Truth, Justice, Path

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
David Beckham

Everything, Line, Straight

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
Marilyn vos Savant

Car, Able, Line

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen

Mistakes, Simple, Dead

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

Democracy, Far, Until

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Sun Myung Moon

Truth, Two, Why

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Arthur Eddington

Body, State, Rest

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Ibrahim Babangida

Nature, Line, Distance

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
Robert Smithson

Nature, Rather, Line

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

Change, Time, Human

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
Liam Gallagher

Alone, Book, Write

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
Andrew Davies

Her, Line, Characters

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson

Success, Work, Failure

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

Challenge, Sense, Film

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott

Respect, Past, Long

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown

Good, Two, Between

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

Work, Time, End

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Humanity, Line, Straight

The straight line is ungodly.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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