I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words. — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
You have to have a full-length mirror in your house so you can see what is missing and what you have to… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise. — Ben Crenshaw Copy Share Image
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases… — Hardin B. Jones Copy Share Image
A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not… — John Cage Copy Share Image
People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know,… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let… — Thomas Burnet Copy Share Image
I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no… — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
A great show means we have to connect; we have to prove to [the audience] that we do something great or blow… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things… — Eric Abetz Copy Share Image
“The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.”… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form. — Andreas Deja Copy Share Image
You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length… — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image