Length Quotes

722 Length quotes by 591 unique authors

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more. — Darynda Jones
If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
The fact that 'True Blood' affects people in this way is incredible to me - the fact we have to go to such great lengths… — Ryan Kwanten
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;… — Lucy R. Lippard
The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead… — Amanda Marcotte
...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which the… — Hardin B. Jones
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his… — John Milton
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much… — Brian Ferneyhough
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Adrian Belew
The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use… — Gerard Majella
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. — Georges Clemenceau
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a… — Alexander Pope
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and… — Henry Knox
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There… — Henry David Thoreau
God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work,… — Vincent de Paul
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds… — Catherynne M. Valente
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are… — James Hillman
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one… — Isaac Asimov
I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or… — Randall Munroe
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length. — Walter Jon Williams
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top… — Mary Cholmondeley

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