#length

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#distant #hear #other #ours #people

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#already #cannot #child #children #dogs

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#becoming #difficult #found #i #i write

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#even #everything #i #length #queue

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#any #asylums #days #ending #event

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day. ↗

— Faith Evans

#biggie #born #day #days #definitely

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#cessation #comes #dance #endure #everyone

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#capacity #consistency #cycles #homogeneity #i

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. ↗

— John Clayton

#only #paper #such #surface #thickness