Length Quotes

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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. — Louise Erdrich
I have no history but the length of my bones. — Robin Skelton
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length… — James Fenton
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… — Dirk Benedict
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that… — Nellie Bly
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep… — Ty Burrell
There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is… — Nick D'Aloisio
My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady.… — Ronnie Dunn
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough… — Ted Dekker
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me. — David Ginola
While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant. — Thomas Dolby
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… — Percy Williams Bridgman
In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva.… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects… — Rene Descartes
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,… — Guy Forget
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
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I've learned… — Susanna Hoffs
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… — James Nasmyth
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to… — Oliver Stone

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