Length Quotes - page 4

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length. (Helen Fisher)
He'd only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he'd always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way. View quote
Hugh Howey
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. View quote
Isaac D'Israeli
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage. View quote
Lucy R. Lippard
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. View quote
Margaret Mahy
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish. View quote
Nathan Deal
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. View quote
Cy Twombly
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. View quote
Tom Brokaw
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. View quote
Adrian Belew
Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length. (Barbara Lee)
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. View quote
Dirk Benedict
You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance. View quote
Emerson Fittipaldi
When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything. View quote
Edward P. Jones
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. View quote
Frederick Wiseman
We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie. View quote
Harold Ramis
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties. View quote
Harry Shearer
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. View quote
Johannes Stark
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. View quote
Julia Margaret Cameron
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting. (Karen Thompson Walker)
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that. View quote
Lennie James
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure. View quote
Phylicia Rashad
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time. View quote
Trevor Dunn
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be! View quote
William Cartwright