Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length. — Craig Charles 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
Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts. — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith,… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it.… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time. — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it. — Ryuho Okawa Copy Share Image
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. — Winston Churchill 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
Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog. — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
