“WTFact: The human small intestine can reach up to eight meters in length. Why do you want to know that? Because all… — Gregory Bergman Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Every time you think a thought it 'registers', and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out… — Al Koran Copy Share Image
And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may… — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply… — Rex Brandt Copy Share Image
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against… — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic… — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.' -Patch (PG… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver? — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to… — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
