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We've found 46 quotes for 'straight man' (0.147 seconds):



"When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier" »Carol Burnett 
"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." »African Proverb 
"A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal." »Winston Churchill 
"Run straight ahead, And if anything gets in your way...turn" »Unknown 
"Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight." »Mencius 
"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." »Garrison Keillor 
"It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow." »Kelly Marshall 
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." »Phyllis Diller 
"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight." »Aristophenes 
"If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow." »Chinese Proverb 
"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant 
"From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made." »Immanuel Kant 
"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
"The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line." »Joanne Field 
"We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us." »Tom Fitzgerald 
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." »Fred Hoyle 
"You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water." »John Dryden 
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost." »Dante Alighieri 
"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things." »William J. Locke 
"What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook." »Henry David Thoreau 
"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter." »Logan Pearsall Smith 
"The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure." »Josh Traeger 
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't." »Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington 
"The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked." »Richter 
"As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts." »Buddha 
"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul." »Ingrid Bergman 
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight." »Proverbs 35 Bible 
"so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again." »Joseph Heller, Catch 22 
"Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people." »Ben Harper 
"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible." »Robert M. Hutchins 
   BTW, Why won't you become an editor?

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