Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since… — Susanna Hoffs Copy Share Image
English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it… — Deborah Harkness 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
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover. — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length. — Andrew Mitchell 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
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
