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Quotes About Straight

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.
~ Joseph Alexander Leighton
Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?
~ Adam Selzer
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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
My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.
~ Jamie Foxx
A story and an arrow must be straight, and the words and a bow bent to them.
~ Jane Hawes
Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it so straight up and down—like Fifth Avenue. And with all the cross streets numbered!" She seemed to guess his faint disapproval of this, and added, with the rare smile that enchanted her whole face: "If you knew how I like it for just that—the straight-up-and-downness, and the big honest labels on everything!" He saw his chance. "Everything may be labelled—but everybody is not.
~ Edith Wharton
If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot.
~ Mark Billingham
Everybody likes new shoes! It is a new feeling, going onto the pitch, so it is great to be able to wear them straight out of the box. They are comfortable straight away and move with you. I could not do that with my old shoes. So every time I have a big match, I want new shoes straight out of the box.
~ Memphis Depay
What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.
~ Jonathan Agnew
I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight.
~ Frances McDormand
Bonner leans his forehead against hers. Zig when they think you'll zag. Creation's Rule Number Two. What's Number One? Els asks, willing to be this bent soul's straight man. Zag when they think you'll zig.
~ Richard Powers
Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
~ William Morris
This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.
~ David Sedaris
There are certain poses which enhances the look of the saree. Your back should be straight. If not, it could ruin the entire look.
~ Madalsa Sharma
Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.
~ Amy Sedaris
I think it's so funny because straight people just don't think about gender in their songs, or making a statement by talking about love.
~ King Princess
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
~ Dr. Dre
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
~ Ang Lee
I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
~ Stephen J. Cannell
It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
~ Sam Graves
The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked.
~ Richter
As Iggy later recalled, in a typical week they'd spend two days drunk, two days nursing their hangovers, and three days straight—"which is a pretty good balance for musicians.
~ Rob Sheffield