A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other… — Rod Blackhurst Copy Share Image
“The time traveller proceeded, "any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thicknessa and Duration. But… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and… — John Waters 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
We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be… — Sark Copy Share Image
Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's… — Joss Whedon 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
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
It really comes down to fit. When it comes to a suit, for example, it's important that the shoulders fit you well;… — Henrik Lundqvist Copy Share Image
reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply. — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old. — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It's always better for the bowlers to stick to a line and length, and that helps you get wickets. — Jasprit Bumrah Copy Share Image
You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs,… — John Mayall Copy Share Image