Length Quotes
722 quotes by 591 authors
-
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
— Robert Frost
-
There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether…
— Samuel Beckett
-
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
— Haruki Murakami
-
We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.
— Evan Esar
-
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before
— Herman Melville
-
You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of…
— Jodi Picoult
-
Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to…
— J D Salinger
-
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any…
— Shirley Jackson
-
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
— Virginia Woolf
-
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and…
— Daphne du Maurier
-
It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!
— Rachel Vincent
-
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as…
— Daniel Webster
-
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something…
— Robert Wright
-
Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
-
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a…
— Stephen King
-
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective…
— Victor Hugo
-
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing…
— Edith Wharton
-
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly…
— Terry Pratchett
-
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is…
— Carlos Castaneda
-
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
Who Wrote These Length Quotes
591 authors contributed a total of 722 Length Quotes, led by these top contributors: