Length Quotes - page 16

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length. (Charles Sturt)
Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length. View quote
Craig Charles
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. View quote
Dale E. Turner
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege. View quote
Deborah Sampson
I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's. View quote
Don Novello
I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that. View quote
Evan Daugherty
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. View quote
Frank Darabont
Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length. View quote
George Mercer Dawson
But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches. View quote
Guy Forget
You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end. View quote
Harbhajan Singh
It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak. (Iyanla Vanzant)
I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be. View quote
Jay Roach
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. View quote
John Elway
The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times. View quote
Jose Serrano
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on. View quote
Laura Marling
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. View quote
Douglas Haig
It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass. View quote
Jay Cooke
It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations. View quote
John Robert Gregg
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. View quote
Mary McLeod Bethune
First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan. View quote
Matthew Sweet
I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time. (Robert Stack)
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 there from time to time. View quote
Roma Downey
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue. View quote
Ron Rash
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader. View quote
Ron Rash
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier. View quote
Ronald Frame