Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
The shortest distance between two people is a smile.
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
The idea of 'raw' music, to me, is honesty: getting people to feel you with the least amount of production possible, the shortest distance traveled emotionally, sonically.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
[Describing FDR:] ... a man who thinks the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line but a corkscrew.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
