Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.
Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.
There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class
I wasn't the guy who got straight As. I got As and Bs and a couple Cs.
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
poetry. . . is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.
[The rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio on set was raped by a bear] was as silly as Lady Gaga bumping him or moving his arm out of the way [at the Golden Globes]. People straight be bored.
The «way», who will pass it on straight and well?
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered.
Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger. . . We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.
Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.
Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.
Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.
Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.