Famous quotes containing the words line and/or length:
“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)