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Quotes About Straight

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
~ Martin Filler
I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
~ Melissa Etheridge
I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.
~ Rupert Graves
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
Combine speed is overrated. It might give you a good look to see what you can run in a straight line, but football's not played in a straight line.
~ Tavon Austin
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.
~ Thomas Middleditch
When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.
~ Jon Richardson
Straight people love to steal from drag queens. It happens all the time.
~ Alaska
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
~ Edmund White
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
~ Thom Gunn
I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.
~ Art Bell
I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
Take it for all in all, a representative gathering of Twing life and thought. The Nibs were whispering in a pleased manner to each other, the Lower Middles were sitting up very straight, as if they'd been bleached, and the Tough Eggs whiled away the time by cracking nuts and exchanging low rustic wheezes.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Your boyfriend's cuckold kink is most likely a subconscious, erotic response to a sexually charged fear. While most of us don't eroticize our fears, a number of us respond to sexual fears or even traumas by incorporating them into our erotic imaginations. And what do many straight men fear most? Being cheated on. —DECEMBER 7, 2006
~ Dan Savage
Tell you what I don't like about a place so goddamned orderly like this. As an artist... it's the lines that get me. All the straight lines in the walls, on the floors, in the corners that turn into boxes—like coffins. The only way I can get rid of the boxes is to take a few drinks. Then all the lines get wavy and wiggly, and I feel a lot better about the whole world. When things are all straight and lined up this way I get morbid.
~ Daniel Keyes
On hearing these dreadful words my daughter Penelope said she didn't know what prevented her heart from flying straight out of her. I thought privately it might have been her stays.
~ Wilkie Collins
It is not merely probable, it is certain that we shall never find a straight line that is not the shortest distance between two points.
~ Will Durant
Sundance: [to Etta] What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you. But the minute you start to whine or make a nuisance, I don't care where we are, I'm dumping you flat. Butch: Don't sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight.
~ William Goldman
Der Vater. Der Vater ist viereckig und raucht Ernte 23. Am Sonntag im Bett zieht er den Kindern gern schnurgerade Scheitel. Die Mutter. Die Mutter ist eine Milch eine schoen warme. Aber in der man ertrinkt.
~ Heinar Kipphardt
Build me straight, O worthy Master!Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I dont never hav enny trouble in regulating mi own kondukt, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
~ Ted Allen
Utah is amazing, it's incredible because it's so big. There are so many places to drive. There are curves, straight bits; it's like Road Runner country, frankly.
~ Edd China