Length Quotes

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. (Alfred Hitchcock)
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. View quote
Robert Frost
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it. View quote
Ben Stiller
It is not length of life, but depth of life. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
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. View quote
William Rehnquist
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The day's length. If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. View quote
James Nasmyth
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. View quote
Cleveland Amory
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. View quote
Joseph Addison
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. View quote
Vitruvius
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. View quote
Winston Churchill
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in. (Tim Roth)
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color. View quote
Ken Follett
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. View quote
Margaret Halsey