Straight Lines

Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or lines:

    “Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “We stand in the tumult of a festival.
    What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
    These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
    These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
    A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
    That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)