“I said , have you seen your butt?" "Is that a rhetorical question?" I craned my neck to take a gander at… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker,"… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“Another problem we found relates to the pedagogical method used in the Gettysburg Address exemplar that the Common Core calls “cold reading.”… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
A great presidential address - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Truman's Farewell Address, Kennedy's Inaugural Address - has the power to inspire. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw,… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
“So you’re saying you do want to sleep with me?” “Given the fact that I just took my millionth cold shower since… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
“The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independance, but… — National Review Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“A THOUSAND WORDS My stepfather Ralph Newman was a merry and remarkable man, a former minor league second baseman who broke his… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image