Span Quotes - page 2

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN. (Chuck Grassley)
span id=But_I_shall>But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. View quote
Bram van Velde
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years. View quote
John F. Kennedy
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war. View quote
Ben Barnes
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. View quote
Brian Boitano
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school. View quote
Chris Crutcher
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. View quote
Cynthia Kenyon
My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important. (Dennis Eckersley)
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span. View quote
Evan Parker
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources. View quote
Jeff Mangum
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. View quote
Julian Castro
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries. View quote
Laurel Clark
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. View quote
Maira Kalman
How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. View quote
Mel Torme
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. View quote
Tom Shales
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span. View quote
Thomas Haden Church
The Hiss Case has turned my wife and me into old people - not a disagreeable condition. But we who used to plan in terms of decades, now find a year, two years, the utmost span of time we can take in. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
Ah! where shall weary man take sanctuary, where live his little span of life secure? and 'scape of Heav'n serene th' indignant storms that launch their thunders at us earthen worms? (Richard Francis Burton)
He rushed before them to the glittering space, And, with a strength that was but strong desire, Cried, "I am Jubal, I!.... I made the lyre!" The tones amid a lake of silence fell Broken and strained, as if a feeble bell Had tuneless pealed the triumph of a land To listening crowds in expectation spanned. Sudden came showers of laughter on that lake; They spread along the train from front to wake In one great storm of merriment, while he Shrank doubting whether he could Jubal be... View quote
George Eliot
There was no pain when I awoke, No pain at all. Rest, like a goad, Spurred my eyes open - and light broke Upon them like a million swords: And she was there. There are no words. Heaven is for a moment's span. And ever. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in', that civilized man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Before you get any kid vaccinated for any reason, you'd better study the subject before you make a decision on vaccines. [...] Did you know autism has increased 75,000% in Illinois over a ten-year span? Autism is increasing everywhere. There are many folks like Mary Tocco, her web site is www. MaryTocco. com It is a good website. She studied this intently said, Look, these autism increases are because of vaccinations. That's what is causing it. America has the highest sudden infant death rate syndromes among industrialized nations. In 1970, Australia made vaccines non-mandatory. Fifty percent of the parents opted out of the program and SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) dropped by 50%. View quote
Kent Hovind