Straight Quotes

• Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

  

  MF DOOM
  • People
  • Same
  • Actually

• That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

  

  Euclid
  • Straight
  • Produced
  • Angles

• 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.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Lines
  • Mechanisms
  • Lifeless

• Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

  

  William Regal
  • Intense
  • Grounded
  • Gangsta

• I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

  

  Ric Keller
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Understand

• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  

  John Milton
  • Eye
  • Lawns
  • Russet

• It's been a frustrating summer especially as I've done the hard work getting into the 30s but I know I've got to play patiently and straight.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Work
  • Done
  • Play

• An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Gay
  • Straight
  • Pop Stars

• Bakery air is that steaming hot front of thick, buttery fumes waiting for you just inside the door of a bakery. And I am just going to tell you straight up: That is some fine air!

  

  Neil Pasricha
  • Air
  • Going
  • Inside

• So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was hit hard and straight at an infielder.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Hard
  • Straight
  • Infielder

• I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.

  

  Young M.A
  • People
  • Different
  • Purpose

• He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Straight
  • Astray
  • Preserved

• I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.

  

  Darryl Dawkins
  • Power
  • Everybody
  • Somebody

• Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

  

  Confucius
  • Rules
  • Straight
  • Propriety

• When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Men
  • Money
  • Know

• The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

  

  Carole Wilkinson
  • Sometimes
  • Path
  • Crooked

• Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Humanity
  • Made
  • Straight

• You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

  

  Athanasius
  • Put
  • Straight
  • Warped

• The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Cure
  • Straight
  • Hangover

• I keep my head straight toward my goal.

  

  Francis Ngannou
  • Straight
  • Toward

• Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don’t have the time, don’t cook it. You can rush a Mexican meal, but you will pay in some way. You can buy so-called Mexican food at too many restaurants that say they cook Mexican food. But the real food, the most savory food, is prepared with time and love and at home. So, give up the illusion that you can throw Mexican food together. Just understand that you are going to have to make and take the time.

  

  Denise Chavez
  • Time
  • Food
  • Understand

• Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

  

  Kara Goucher
  • Progress
  • Ahead
  • Straight

• We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.

  

  Leslie Feist Broken Social Scene
  • Music
  • Man
  • Funny

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