#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

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

— Robert Smithson

#does #line #nature #proceed #rather

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

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#continues #every #except #insofar #line

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#amid #been #conflicting #course #cruelty

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#bad #circle #draw #drawer #even

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 challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#challenge #collage #did #director #film