Straight Quotes - page 58

No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real. (Carlos Santana)
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. View quote
John Galsworthy
Did you know that if you removed all nerve cells from your brain and laid them out end-to-end in a straight line, you would die? View quote
Johannes Grenzfurthner
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color. View quote
Voltaire
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? View quote
C. S. Lewis
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? View quote
C. S. Lewis
Newton... (after having remarked that geometry only requires two of the mechanical actions which it postulates, namely, to describe a straight line and a circle) says: geometry is proud of being able to achieve so much while taking so little from extraneous sources. One might say of metaphysics, on the other hand: it stands astonished, that with so much offered it by pure mathematics it can effect so little. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling. View quote
Laozi
Yield and overcome Bend and be straight Empty and be full Wear out and be new Have little and gain Have much and be confused. ... The ancients say, 'Yield and overcome.' Is that an empty saying Be really whole, And all things will come to you. View quote
Laozi
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. (Isaac Newton)
Absurd, irreducible; nothing - not even a profound and secret delirium of nature - could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
["Lines you wouldn't hear in a superhero movie"] Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Whatever it is it's heading straight for the World Trade Center! View quote
Frankie Boyle
Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke. View quote
Jack Nicklaus
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. View quote
Shirley MacLaine
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. View quote
Fulton J. Sheen
You can start going around and taking examples and taking stories and taking everything. Or you can just one straight thing: 'Guru Maharaj Ji, take me'. View quote
Prem Rawat
Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you. View quote
Alexei Sayle
Li was a very honest and honorable man. But when it came to any man's abiding passion, honesty occasionally went straight out the nearest available window. View quote
Robert Asprin
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. (John Ralston Saul)
Morpheus' gifts used to come to me in bottles, Beam and black Jack Daniel's, straight up with a frosted schooner of Jax on the side, while the rain poor down in the neon glow outside the window of an all-night bar not far from the Huey Long Bridge. In a half hour I could kick open a furnace door and fling into the flames all the snakes and squeaking bats that lived inside me. Except the next morning they would writhe with new life in the ashes and come back home, stinking and hungry. View quote
James Lee Burke
I leave it to those concerned the launching of a hate campaign against me based on imagined and manufactured allegations. Please get the facts straight and don't try to put words in my mouth. View quote
Francis Escudero
You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself. View quote
Athanasius of Alexandria
Name-calling does not break the modern black man. That's not gonna do the trick. I don't give a fuck about that. Like, if I went to Kentucky Fried Chicken, and for some reason, everyone behind the counter had a Ku Klux Klan hood on top of their head, what do you think I'm gonna do in this day and age? Run out of Kentucky Fried Chicken? Not if I'm hungry. I'll go straight to the front. "Hey, man. Let me get a two-piece." I don't give a fuck what he says. "You want a biscuit with that, nigger?" "I thought it came with a biscuit. What's all this attitude? I want a two-piece. Chop, chop. You know what it is." But I'm not gonna be mad. Why would I be mad? He's the one that's gotta work at Kentucky Fried Chicken, not me. View quote
Dave Chappelle