Straight Quotes

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.

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

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

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

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

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

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.