Word Length

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or length:

    A good word is as a good tree—
    its roots are firm,
    and its branches are in heaven;
    it gives its produce every season
    by the leave of its Lord.
    Qur’An. Abraham 14:29-30, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    People are always dying in the Times who don’t seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.
    James Reston (b. 1909)