#straight

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#back #been #bred #eyes #green

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

— Robert Smithson

#does #line #nature #proceed #rather

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. ↗

— Iain Glen

#class #even #face #her #i

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. ↗

— Billy Graham

#area #attitude #every #gets #help

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid. ↗

— John Spratt

#amount #bottom #bottom line #cut #cuts

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids. ↗

— Bill Maher

#cake #gay #get #kids #know

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#difficult #go #i #i can #most

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward. ↗

— Alice Munro

#cover #forward #i #i do #jump

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign. ↗

— Cy Young

#dollars #gets #gosh #kid #sign