Length famous quotes

There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
-- Andreas Deja

#Stories #Length #Form

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
-- Arabella Weir

#Cry #Length #Queues

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
-- Avicenna

#Short Life #Length

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
-- Barbara Broccoli

#People #Film #Length

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
-- Charles Sturt

#Emigration #Intention #Length

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.
-- Christophe Agou

#Distance #Arms #Length

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
-- Cy Twombly

#Art #Length #Preparing

Time at length becomes justice.
-- Cynthia Ozick

#Time #Justice #Length

With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.
-- D. L. Hughley

#Cigar #Length #Girth

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
-- David Walliams

#Tired #Length #Thames

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

#Length #Just Live #Wells

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
-- Don Roff

#Writing #Stories #Length

Shorth is better than length.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Length

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.
-- Edwin Way Teale

#Space #Birth #Length

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

#Knowing #Admiration #Length

A line is length without breadth.
-- Euclid

#Lines #Mathematics #Length

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.
-- Evan Esar

#Volunteer #Depth #Length

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

#Length #Shows

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
-- Frank Darabont

#Arbitrary #Film #Length

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
-- George Mercer Dawson

#Crystals #Abundance #Length

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
-- George S. Patton

#Motivation #Doubt #Length

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

#Cutting #Rooms #Length

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
-- Harry Shearer

#Hbo #Length #Wells

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Friendship #Depth #Length

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.
-- Henry Ford

#Men #Able #Length

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

#Names #Length #Unlimited

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.
-- John Dryden

#Long #Driven #Length

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.
-- John Dryden

#Fall #Government #Length

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
-- John Lyly

#Honesty #Life Is #Length

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

#Wife #Slave #Length

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
-- Julia Margaret Cameron

#Longing #Length #Satisfied

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.
-- Kathryn Minshew

#Advertising #Muse #Length

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
-- Loretta Young

#Mirrors #Quitting #Length

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.
-- Mac Miller

#Cry #Length

We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.
-- Marcel Proust

#Wall #Doe #Length

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.
-- Marisha Pessl

#Talking #Enough #Length

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
-- Martin Freeman

#Fog #Capes #Length

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length ...
-- Mary Russell Mitford

#Excellence #Lawyer #Length

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.
-- Matt Dunn

#Length #Concerned

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
-- Nancy Astor

#Men #Years #Length

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus

#Long #Advisors #Length

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
-- Ovid

#Hands #Length #Wounds

...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.
-- Patrick Süskind

#People #Arms #Length

To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.
-- Percy Williams Bridgman

#Determined #Length #Operations

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
-- Peter Weir

#Ties #Arbitrary #Length

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
-- R. Kent Hughes

#God Love #Length #Crosses

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
-- Randall Jarrell

#Crafts #Narrative #Length

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.
-- Richard Francis Burton

#Lines #Infinite #Length

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Hair #Today #Length

I have no history but the length of my bones.
-- Robin Skelton

#History #Bones #Length

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Mountain #Length

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

#Degrees #Length

You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.
-- Ryuho Okawa

#Quality #Mindfulness #Length

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#People #Length #Remarkable

If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.
-- Thomas Cogswell Upham

#Moments #Faculty #Length

Length is usually intensity. Not time.
-- Thomas Pynchon

#Intensity #Length

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
-- Trevor Dunn

#Band #Length #Grows

The great mystery of life is the length of it.
-- Venita VanCaspel

#Mystery #Life Is #Length

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
-- William Browne

#Life #Life Is #Length

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

#Lines #Length #Vary

String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?
-- Willie Garson

#Long #Mechanic #Length

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.
-- Andrew Mitchell

#Realizing #Length #Bootstraps

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.
-- Edward M. Lerner

#Writing #Length #Scope

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.
-- Janusz Kaminski

#Long #Film #Length

It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person, and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.
-- Jason O'Mara

#Fans #Able #Length

I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.
-- Sue Tompkins

#Thinking #Long #Length

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.
-- Matthew Carter

#Curious #Length #Persons

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
-- Arthur Henderson

#War #Gone #Length

I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.
-- Olivia Palermo

#Skirts #Different #Length

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.
-- Christian Rudder

#Character #Messages #Length

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.
-- Rohinton Mistry

#Long #Together #Length

That whole shoulder length hair thing is a thing!
-- Ross Mathews

#Hair #Ridiculous #Length

A great show means we have to connect; we have to prove to [the audience] that we do something great or blow their socks off, but it has to be with them if it's going to be sustained for any length of time.
-- Scott Avett

#Mean #Blow #Length

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.
-- Torae

#Couple #Records #Length