The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. — Alexander Pope 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
You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it. — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes.… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong… — John Barth Copy Share Image
There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing… — Edgar Guest 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
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat… — Chris Ahrens Copy Share Image
Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If my mind gravitates to a role, I take it up, regardless of the length. — Sanya Malhotra Copy Share Image
A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish. — Robbie Keane Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
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