“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Definitions had to be like a fat man’s belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.”

Gregory Benford book The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 14, “This Immense Voyage” (p. 163)

“Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”

Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director

Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)

“If the syntax is good enough for the information, it should be good enough for the meta-information.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

Re: XML and lisp http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4917ba734ce860c4 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.”

Edith Head (1897–1981) American film and television costumer

Source: The Dress Doctor

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”

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