The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana 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
I'm writinng my first full-length novel, which is based on a novella I wrote called "The Mad Scientist's Daughter." I'm having a… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I was so tall and so skinny - I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it… — John Badham Copy Share Image
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length. — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter. — Martial Copy Share Image
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We never want to be a band that keeps our fans at arm’s length. This has always been about us and our… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more powerful, or more dangerous, than the truth. That's why some people go to such lengths to… — Jonathan Cainer Copy Share Image
I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
