Straight Line

Famous quotes containing the words straight line, straight and/or line:

    Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.
    Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)

    Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
    Pallas Athena in that straight back and arrogant head:
    All the Olympians; a thing never known again.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A line in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands;
    They take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank;
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)