The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

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.
Ayn Rand

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma Bombeck

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Billy Graham

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
Michael Jackson

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Swami Vivekananda

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
Paul McCartney