Length Quotes

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

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.

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.

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.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract.