
“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”
Quoting a schoolchild in "English as She Is Taught"
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”
Quoting a schoolchild in "English as She Is Taught"
“Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -
Other days the line tends to deviate.”
In or Out
Song lyrics
“Walk right in, sit right down, baby let your hair hang down”
Song Walk Right In (1927)
Context: Walk right in, sit right down, baby let your hair hang down.
Everybody's talking 'bout a new way of walking;
Do you want to lose you mind?
Account of 8 October 1918.
Diary of Alvin York
Context: The major suggested we go down a gully, but I knew that was the wrong way. And I told him we were not going down any gully. We were going straight through the German front line trenches back to the American lines.
It was their second line that I had captured. We sure did get a long way behind the German trenches! And so I marched them straight at that old German front line trench. And some more machine guns swung around and began to spit at us. I told the major to blow his whistle or I would take off his head and theirs too. So he blew his whistle and they all surrendered — all except one. I made the major order him to surrender twice. But he wouldn't. And I had to touch him off. I hated to do it. But I couldn't afford to take any chances and so I had to let him have it.
Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)
On having children — as quoted in Brown, J. & Eliot, M. (2005). I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul, p. 248. New American Library: New York. ISBN 0-45121-393-9
“and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.”
Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses