As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages. — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length. — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book?… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the… — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and… — Mimi Sheraton Copy Share Image
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual,… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by.… — Gerard Majella Copy Share Image
How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image