Famous quotes containing the words straight line, straight and/or line:
“Mathematics ... would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Never believe straight off in a mans unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answers yes, alls well. That is enough.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (18941961)
“I said: A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moments thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)