Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
