Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees -… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making… — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved. — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Young men now want to be caregivers as well as earners so they have joined with women in demanding a different compact… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR… — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them… — Edward William Lane Copy Share Image
All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order,… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms… — Ronnie Coleman Copy Share Image
![“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .” quote by Shirley Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/579/shirley-jackson-1526_awkward_l-et-my-reader-who-is-puzzled-by-my-awkw_3121753.jpg)
![“Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.” quote by Robin Furth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a1e/robin-furth-29780_book_originally-i-broke-the-story-the-gunslin_2289404.jpg)
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