#straight line

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. ↗

— Liam Gallagher

#book #chew #even #gum #line

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#appear #come #dead #ends #historians

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#between #crooked #distance #line #lines

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#because #dragged #escape #guards #i

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#humanity #leads #line #straight #straight line

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#does #line #nature #proceed #rather

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#down #line #straight #straight line #up

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#depends #developed #economy #emancipate #how