Straighten Quotes

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles.
It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.
- Kieran Culkin

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis
of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
- Edward Albert

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer.
Baseball is the belly-button of our society.
Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
- Bill Lee

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business
things we had to straighten out and personnel problems
and it sort of took a little time to do it.
- Debbie Harry

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

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't
stand a trip across the desert with limited water,
we're never going to straighten this country out.
- Ross Perot

When peoples care for you and cry for you,
they can straighten out your soul.
- Langston Hughes

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns,
I have two choices.
I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort
and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
- Jerry Falwell

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability,
but comes through continuous struggle.
And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.
A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The priority must be the unification of the world titles
to straighten things out.
But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation,
because we are running out of time.
- Anatoly Karpov

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -
he promised Dad he'd go straight.
- John F. Kennedy

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true.
It's just learning not to take the first no.
And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
- Cher

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours,
I must look her straight in the eyes.
- Prince Charles

It's called a pen.
It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
- Dale Dauten

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
- W. C. Fields

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

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

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but
to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
- Tupac Shakur

I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted.
I'm ready to relax for a little while and read.
I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.
- Sanaa Lathan

Space isn't remote at all.
It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
- Fred Hoyle

The Republican National Committee hired me,
and they hired me because they wanted someone who could
look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.
- Frank Luntz

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

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

Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first.
That's a very interesting concept.
- Harvey Korman

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just
as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services,
which are basically sort of straight news.
- Tabitha Soren

And there goes Juantorena down the back straight,
opening his legs and showing his class.
- David Coleman

A straight factor is important in any comedy,
because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
- Jason Bateman

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique
compliment to a straight truth -
if the latter were unflattering.
- Minna Antrim

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip,
but I went straight to a therapist.
And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
- Lynn Redgrave

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews
is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence,
so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
- Brian De Palma

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
- William Golding

I hate straight singing.
I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it.
That's all I know.
- Billie Holiday

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman,
please write to the original source,
myself,
for the truth, instead of second guessing.
- Bob Kane

Straight girls like me.
They flirt with me to get whatever they want.
Of course it works.
- Lea DeLaria

The most successful marriages, gay or straight,
even if they begin in romantic love,
often become friendships.
It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
- Andrew Sullivan

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
- Roger McGough

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

What is straight? A line can be straight,
or a street, but the human heart, oh,
no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
- Tennessee Williams

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight.
All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it -
walk.
- Ayn Rand

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy.
I sort of make my own way and make my own statement.
Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
- Pamela Stephenson

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake,
is hiding something.
- Clifton Fadiman

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese,
straight.
That means nothing to me.
It's all an illusion.
- Joe Rogan

But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday.
I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year,
especially with its straight plays.
It's been a wonderful year.
- Gregory Harrison

I like having a private name and a public name.
It helps keep things straight.
- S. E. Hinton

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
- Laurence Olivier

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while,
they came up and went straight back down again.
- Alan Hansen

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
- Marc Almond

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time,
we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
- Ben Gibbard

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction -
I write the book straight through from beginning to end.
By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
- Jonathan Lethem

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life,
not set any kind of a bad example.
- Elvis Presley

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days,
and I was unable to sleep most nights.
- April Winchell

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
- Scott Caan

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same -
dupe,
fox, straight, like burlesque skits -
the repetition through the ages is comedy.
- Dawn Powell

I am not a painter, nor an artist.
Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
- Alfred Stieglitz

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to
myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
- Dante Alighieri

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper,
and what will keep me straight.
- William Green

In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi,
we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in.
There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.
- Dana Plato

I was terrible at straight items.
When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing
I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
- Erma Bombeck

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

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight.
I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
- Robbie Williams

Nature does not proceed in a straight line,
it is rather a sprawling development.
- Robert Smithson

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.
- Kyan Douglas

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight.
It was that way for a few years.
- Steve Buscemi

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation.
Every single cent.
- Steve Irwin

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space
Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different
windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.
- John L. Phillips

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