Compactness Quotes

#1. (Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.

Dorothy Parker

#2. Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses - one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. Oak ... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures ... when exposed to moisture ... it cannot take in liquid on account of its compactness, but, withdrawing from the moisture, it resists it and warps, thus making cracks.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#4. We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

Arthur Erickson

#5. I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#6. What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

Mark Twain

#7. The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

Diego Maradona

#8. I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.

Eric Ripert

#9. It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Michael Morpurgo

#10. When food arrives, eat; enjoy what you have in every moment.

Jude Watson

#11. My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.

Charlaine Harris

#12. What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Robbie Coltrane

#13. Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that.

Linda Perry

#14. Islam is going to rise, Once again.

Waseem Latif

#15. The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

Nelson Mandela

#16. It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

Elizabeth Berg

#17. In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

Tom Brady

#18. When the spirit passed through him he groaned, throwing body and soul into his weekly purge. The "Amen enema", as I call it. My palindrome for the Reverend.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief ... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#20. Flow is an alternative path toward mastery, but, like any path, not without its pitfalls. There's a serious dark side to flow,

Steven Kotler