A Quote by Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

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Length Life Narrow Prefer Short Short Life Width

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Avicenna
Philosopher

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Avicenna

Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.

Gaspard Monge

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H. L. Mencken

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

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

John Clayton

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Henry Watson Fowler

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

Zadie Smith

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Evan Esar

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Vitruvius

Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

Bruce Holland Rogers

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!