“The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.”
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
“Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting”
“The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”
“The latter think the shortest distance between two points is from a blonde to a bed.”
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”