In a Sunday news interview, Condi Rice referred six times to how Bush’s State of the Union Address claim about Iraq’s attempt to get uranium from Niger was “only sixteen words.”
Again, that is only sixteen words.
That got me to thinking about how sentences and phrases of sixteen words or less can have great meaning or consequences or humor or lasting inspiration.
Maybe some of you would like to post your own or comment on the concept that sixteen words is barely anything.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. – Carl Sagan
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once. – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. – Carl Sandburg
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! – Sir Walter Scott, Marmion
5.That’s One Giant Step for Man, and One Giant Leap for Mankind – Neil Armstrong
then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open. – William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story
Whoso would be a man must be a non-comformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. – Oscar Wilde
Give me liberty or give me death. – Patrick Henry
Little by little, one travels far. – J. R. R. Tolkien
This was their finest hour.’ – Sir Winston Churchill
I have a dream – The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Follow the money. – Deep Throat
Marry me? – a wild and strange suitor
Maybe… – Zoe Chloe Phithian-Thayer to her future husband
I’m glad to see that so many of you are inspired with humor. What a survival technique!
Major Kong, what you suggest is what he had planned to say and what would have made more sense. But he blew the line. (Gee, he must have had something else on his mind…
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody’s crew. – R. Buckminster Fuller
I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. – William Jennings Bryan
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are for. – Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy
I love you.
Will you marry me?
Yes.
No.
I do.
It’s a boy!
You’ve got the job.
Welcome to Harvard.
You’re going to make a full recovery.
I’m sorry, she has passed away.
You all are so funny and good at this! Scarlett, you almost summarized a lifetime in about thirty-four words.
I stand corrected on using “giant” instead of “small.” (That’s what I get for doing a cut and paste. ) But I was aware that he had mistakenly left out the “a” before man. Sorry about the confusion.
