Straddle Quotes

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing. (Neil Patrick Harris)
Thus money is almost always something hovering between a commodity and a debt-token. This is probably why coins-pieces of silver or gold that are already valuable commodities in themselves, but that, being stamped with the emblem of local authority, became even more valuable-still sit in our heads as the quintessential form of money. They most perfectly straddle the divide that defines what money is in the first place. What's more, the relation between the two was a matter of constant political conversation. In other words, the battle between state and market, between governments and merchants is not inherent to the human condition. View quote
David Graeber
As cedars beaten with continual storms, So great men flourish; and do imitate Unskilful statuaries, who suppose, In forging a Colossus, if they make him Straddle enough, strut, and look big, and gape, Their work is goodly: so men merely great In their affected gravity of voice, Sourness of countenance, manners' cruelty, Authority, wealth, and all the spawn of fortune, Think they bear all the kingdom's worth before them, Yet differ not from those colossic statues, Which, with heroic forms without o'erspread, Within are naught but mortar, flint and lead. View quote
George Chapman
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins. View quote
Shereen El Feki
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two. View quote
Sam Taylor-Wood
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. View quote
Tom Waits
The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it. View quote
Will Rogers
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. View quote
Günter Grass