— Jonathan Tropper American writer 1970
Source: This is Where I Leave You
„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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„If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.“
— Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967
„I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.“
— Paul Newman American actor and film director 1925 - 2008
Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)
— Erik Naggum Norwegian computer programmer 1965 - 2009
Re: XML and lisp http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4917ba734ce860c4 (Usenet article).
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 American film and television costumer 1897 - 1981
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 American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
„Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.“
— Gustave Flaubert French writer (1821–1880) 1821 - 1880
— Adriana Trigiani American film director 1970
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
„If English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible, it should be good enough for Coke.“
— Michele Bachmann American politician 1956
Similar to a parodical Bachmann quote in * 2011-10-05
Top 10 upcoming Michele Bachmann gaffes
The Wacky Deli
http://thewackydeli.com/top10mbgaffes: “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for every child in America to speak.”, likely based on an apocryphal quote attributed to Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, “If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!”
regarding a 2014 Coca-Cola television advertisement featuring Americans of various ethnicities singing "America the Beautiful" in various languages.
Misattributed
„It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.“
Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.
— Seneca the Younger, Moral Essays
De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life", trans. John W. Basore), Ch. 1
Moral Essays
— Mike Godwin, book Cyber Rights
"Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age": 17.
Cyber Rights
„And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
As quoted in "Portrait of Mr. Papa" by Malcolm Cowley in LIFE magazine (10 January 1949)
Context: It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
„No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.“
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
„What we offer is good enough. It's like my haircut: It ain't pretty, but it's good enough.“
— Scott McNealy American businessman 1954
Sun CEO: We're "good enough", 2006-08-25, 2002-10-08, Ricciuti, Mike, CNET News.com, http://archive.is/4UmxS, 2013-06-28 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-961216.html,
„If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.“
— Octavia E. Butler, book Parable of the Talents
Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 15 (p. 291)
„I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935