Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or line:
“The straight Hellespont between
The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)