Length Quotes

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In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. — John Clayton
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same… — Mark Haddon
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. — Jay Cooke
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… — Emerson Fittipaldi
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work.… — Gabriel Lippmann
You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was… — John Mayall
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… — Jose Serrano
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,… — Nathan Deal
My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and… — Jamie Lee Curtis
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the… — Ian Mcewan
I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only… — Elizabeth McGovern
Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene… — Frances Mayes
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside… — Kathryn Lasky
You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies… — Gavid Hood
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… — Lennie James
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.… — Henry Van Dyke
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr
In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length… — Unknown Author
Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings — Lord Byron
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than… — John Badham

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