“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
In or Out
Song lyrics
“Walk right in, sit right down, baby let your hair hang down”
Gus Cannon (1883–1979) American blues musician
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?
Alvin C. York (1887–1964) United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
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.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) Austrian artist
Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
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.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses