#straight

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#gun #mind #out #people #person

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#doing #most #should #straightforward

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. ↗

— Warren G. Harding

#book #could #found #go #i

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#actually #brunt #classroom #directly #going

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#back up #because #been #come #could

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. ↗

— Joan Jett

#better #face #good #good songs #i

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#crooked #entirely #made #man #nothing

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#fashioned #made #man #nothing #straight

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#being #bring #fortunate #go #i