Word Length

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or length:

“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child’s outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child’s innocence.”
—Christoph Meckel (20th century)