People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
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.
How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
The straight line is ungodly.
I have been told that... time doesn't flow in a straight line in my films. It goes round in a circle. Sometimes people comment that the films remind them of Ozu. Maybe that's right. But in Japan, nobody comments on how time passes in my films. So perhaps that is a different way of thinking.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
