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“It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.”

Ideas Equal Size Phrases Compelling Thoughts And Ideas

“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”

Trying Night Morning Painting Materials Summer Horse Green Size Eight Glad Nine Clock Sufficient Gates Cows Canvas Showers July Dew August Collars Carts Donkey Foreground Stoke

Author:John Constable

“A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.”

Ifs May Made Hours Numbers Size Length Strokes Blades Vary Exertion Cubes Spades

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me - we have to do something about saving the polar bears." Never mind his carbon footprint - have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.”

Want Mind Bigs Lasts Energy Saws Tvs Bears Size Saving These Days Als Last Time Carbon Gore Footprint Treadmills Polar Bears Carbon Footprint

Author:Ann Coulter

“I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.”

Giving Writing Trying May Book Stories Bigs Reality Values Reading Goal Novel Five Four Return Illusion Size Short Story

Author:James Clavell

“Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.”

Difficult Growth Company Forever Achievement Increase Size Brilliant Expansion Repetition Rapids Rapid Growth

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“I remember in 1996 falling in love with the Chinese divers. These were people on 20 metre and 10 metre platform boards, doing stuff that you couldn't believe. Then when you saw them afterwards they were about the size of my leg. That was just sensational.”

People Believe Remember Fall Stuff Saws Falling In Love Size Legs Chinese Boards Platforms Sensational

Author:Steve Bunce

“I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.”

World Believe Heart Today I Believe Process Prepared Size Optimistic Enterprise Globes Be Prepared Equitable

Author:Richard Branson

“In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.”

Facts Individual Force Sides Growth Citizens Conflict Responsible Institutions Size Giants Businessman Small Business Legal System

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.”

“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Interest Challenges My Own Break Conditions Media Painting Size Scales Mediums

Author:Lee Krasner

“The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.”

Size Speed Sparks Lit Explosions Fuse All That Remains

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.”

Humans Virtue Students Color Weight Function Size Pleasant Dozen Consolation Utility Cadavers

Book:Spin

Source: Spin

“English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.”

Two Moving Hours Animal Impossible Grew Creatures Scientist Plant Size Smell Stupidity Speed Squares Yellow Thick Favourite Primitive Organisms Yards Fright Mould Slime Porridge

Author:Neal Ascherson

“Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.”

People World Use Might Energy Economy Creative Influence Military Changed Shapes Smart Affair International Size Diplomacy Being Smart Levers Creative Energy International Affairs

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Have you ever had a big idea or dream - something you wanted so bad ... but you were too scared to make it happen, or maybe you didn't really believe it could? Think of how often you've had someone you looked up to or viewed as successful - shoot one of your suggestions full of holes. Ideas and babies have a lot in common - they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Believe May Ideas Dream Bigs Happens Able Wanted Common Successful Baby Birth Size Scared Holes New Ideas Suggestions Nourishment Make It Happen Big Ideas

Author:Bob Proctor

“We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.”

“If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.”

Ifs Way Persons Made Would Be Effort Cities Five Car Building Size Driven Wheels Friendly Software Users Engineers Steers Menus Pedals Vendors Civil Engineer Dashboards Specs User Friendly

Author:Erik Naggum

“Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze as many objects the size of a watermelon out of your body as it takes to kill you?" they generally answer "No, thank you." This leads to falling birthrates everywhere women are not kept enslaved and ignorant of the alternatives.”

Body Fall Answers Objects Baby Slave Size Productions Your Body Ignorant Alternatives Dependent Labour Slave Labour

Author:James Nicoll

“An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.”

Mind Artist Bigger Size

Author:Jack Shadbolt

“A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?”

Humans Whole Universe Human Beings Logic Scientist Size Observation Phenomenon Limitless Particles

Author:Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

“Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.”

“Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.”

Ifs Children Certain Common Towns Size Wander Witch Yards Occasional Witchcraft Puppy Having Children Big Fish Common Knowledge Misbehaving

Author:John August

“At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.”

Years Growth Economy Size Thirty Cents Thirty Years

Author:Paul Ormerod

“As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.”

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.”

States Wealth Levels Size Population

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

“From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.”

Earth Black Four Sky Moon Distance Size Brilliant Jewels Velvet Full Moon

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock.”

“I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.”

Men Mean Long Doe Term Quality Talking Novel Issues Six Structure Size Collections Spiders Graphic Objections Spider Man Graphic Novels

Author:Alan Moore

“When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.”

Years Humans Kids Young Father Views Lord Wife Garden Size Kingdoms Shrinks

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.”

Body Design Shapes Size Your Body Range Satisfying Clothings Accentuate

Author:Susannah Constantine

“As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.”

Way Seems Today Worry Minutes Effects Gay Institutions Size Worried Senators Deficit

Author:John C. Danforth

“We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.”

Size Decades Medical Sugar Labs Cubes

Author:Philippe Kahn

“Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.”

Way Two Country States Used Military Size Firm Canada Funeral Vehicle Spares Undertakings Swearing Cadillacs Entourage Ottawa

Author:Judy LaMarsh

“The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.”

Forget Shapes Size Mantras Forget You

Author:Trinny Woodall

“The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.”

Years Mean Century Paper Scientist Size Factors

Author:John Ziman

“Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.”

Subjects Consequence Gold Embrace Size Enormous Pursue Fearless Thinker Diamond Scarce

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.”

Black Sun Scientist Clinton Size Billions Holes Email Black Hole

Author:David Letterman

“What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.”

Needs Important Able Ability Company Knowing Notes Size Circles Boundaries Experts Investors Competence Evaluate Selected

Author:Warren Buffett

“The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman”

Effort Quality Sea Skills Demand Rivers Weight Size Fishes Boat Dependent Lakes Fishing Concentration Mastery Fisherman

Author:Charles Ritz

“My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.”

Want War Sometimes Desire Simple Fate Sea Couple Prove Rivers Size Fishes Monsters Boat Symbols Lakes Fishing Manhood Cooperatives Frying Latches

Author:John Steinbeck

“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?”

“In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.”

“These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.”

Knows Enough Bigs Sports Company Generations Thirds Size Currents Spectrum

Author:Steve Largent

“I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.”

Mind I Can Helping Artist Order Natural Talking Subjects Figures Expression Personality Size

Author:Norman Rockwell

“Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.”

Ifs Should Doe Hands Can Do Decision Interesting Millions Directors Size Mediums Budgets Can Do Something

Author:Andy Garcia

“Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.”

Knows I Can Use Used Nice Size Chickens Plus Overweight Plus Size Nice Words Plus Size Models

Author:Star Jones

“I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.”

Wisdom Politics Force Company Economy Impact Size Corporations Liberalism Chemicals Fascinated Electric Morale Sears Lowes Electric Power Esops

Author:Robert S. Strauss

“Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.”

Years Wells Would Be Company Economy Years Ago Decided Yeah Size Work Out Mississippi Headquarters Where We Came

Author:Bernard Ebbers

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