Quotes with straight

Quotes 81 till 99 of 99.

  • Alain de Botton We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carol Burnett When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Carson Kressley Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
    Carson Kressley
    American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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  • Carol Berg Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • W. C. Fields You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Aristophanes You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Werner Herzog You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
    Werner Herzog
    German film director and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bill Nye You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Helen Keller Never bend your head. Keep it always high. Look the world straight in the eye.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Ben Shapiro The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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