Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear-headed. There was no fairness in it. The cards most picked up put them into the sucker class; the cards of a few enabled them to become robbers. The playing of the cards was life – the crowd of players, society. The table.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can’t even look her straight in the face.

I skipped ‘College Dropout’ and ‘Late Registration’ and went straight to ‘808s and Heartbreak

Every writer is a storyteller, but not every storyteller is a writer

Every story is a journey into the unknown

The power of storytelling lies in its ability to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar

Every story is a journey, and every character is a traveler on that journey

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Honeypie, I’m far too fly to be on standby Sending me straight to voicemail, sugar, what the hell?

I would go through all this pain Take a bullet straight through my brain Yes, I would die for ya, baby But you won’t do the same

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Of theeves and murderers: there I him espied, Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.

When I first appeared, people couldn’t figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

There are many ways to fall down, but there’s only one way to stand up straight.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

There is no story that is not true.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

But if the arrow is straight And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick. So I’ll make my stand And remain as I am And bid farewell and not give a damn.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

I hit the league straight out the streets with no talent scout.

My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box. Some people say, ‘Feel your way into it; build it up.’ No. My dad would say, ‘Straight away, you have to be there.’ And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.