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 (1844–1900)
“Clever words are not as good as straight talk.”
—Chinese proverb.
“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)