[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often… — Samuel Crompton 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
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia.… — James Nasmyth 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
Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity. — Thomas Ken Copy Share Image
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance… — Edmond Halley 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
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in… — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. ..… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional… — David Duchovny 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
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image