Length Quotes
Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.
It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.
I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.
When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.
Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.
Marathon training doesn't have to be a grind. By running for about 30 minutes two times a week, and by gradually increasing the length of a third weekly run-the long run-anyone can finish a marathon.
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.
In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.