Quotes About Straight

There's a million and one things an actor can do with a villain. He can go for all kinds of quirks and tricks. The hero is much harder to define for an actor. When you play a straight role or a hero, you're kind of stuck, It's much more difficult to give a good guy interesting qualities or to make him unusual.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

[Epicurus] set forth what is the highest good, towards which we all strive, and pointed out the past, whereby along a narrow track we may strain on towards it in a straight course.

At the seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

I love my Mom for actually being a mother and keeping my life steered straight.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

When there is no light to see by, any drunk can walk in a straight line!

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

And yep, here's yet one more heterosexual man who loves his wife. I'm telling you, it's a trend! Women I know who are always complaining they can never meet a good straight man—maybe you're living in the wrong part of the country. Maybe you need to hitchhike. Route 70 West could be the path to a great marriage. Go ahead, stick out your thumb for romance.

I hate being upset because I seriously can't function I can't think straight or do sh.. right.

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

The spirits can only travel in straight lines," said the scholar.

They all played it so straight, as if they were just girls, girls with gentle smiles and simple needs. But the truth was they all lived in a gasp of tension.

Because I feel like a fool," I said. "Falling for a straight guy. It's a fucking cliché." "Really, Henry? All you feel is foolish? Is that why you were about to throw away your sobriety?

This is such a cozy shop, it makes me want to take up knitting." "You should. It's a very relaxing hobby." I don't know how I kept a straight face, saying things like that. Knitting was a diabolical exercise in frustration.

The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make your hooks straight and nothing can hold you.

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.

Si te parece que me voy por las ramas, si te parece que divago, recuerda que las historias reales pocas veces toman el camino más recto.

Nostalgia for a simplified and deeply nativist version of history, a past that had never existed except in the mythologies of people, mostly male, mostly white, mostly straight, who found the modern world too complicated.

Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ëPrepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.í”