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It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before. – Shel Silverstein
'What good can a handgun do against an army?', is in fact a complex one and must be answered at length and carefully. It is a military question. It is also a political question. But above all it is a moral question which strikes to the heart of what makes men free, and what makes them slaves. – Bill St. Clair
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. – Unknown
Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all. – Casino
All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory. – Sir V Pritchett
As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned. – Robert Joseph Bob Dole
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. – Walter Lippmann
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center. – Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. – Rabindranath Tagore
Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue! – Mehmet Murat ildan
For a great willpower, no road has length! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. – Ecclesiastes
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. – Ecclesiastes
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights. – Oscar Levant
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights – Warren Gamaliel Harding
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!" – Richard M. DeVos
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one – Richard M. Devos
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them. – H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"
It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate. – George McGovern
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. – Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God. – W. E. Orchard

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