Length Quotes

722 Length quotes by 591 unique authors

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. — Alfred Hitchcock
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions… — Tom Hodgkinson
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are… — Ivan Illich
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it… — Helen Keller
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was… — Rose Kennedy
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. — Florence King
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of… — John Locke
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is… — Christian Louboutin
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. — Karl Marx
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look. — Marilyn Monroe
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life… — Michel de Montaigne
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. — Baron de Montesquieu
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why… — Lewis Mumford
Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria. — Benjamin Netanyahu
I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at… — Jack Nicklaus
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. — Richard M. Nixon
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and… — Zoe Saldana
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. — Marilyn vos Savant
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established… — Samuel Smiles
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. — Arthur Smith
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or… — Zadie Smith
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time… — Zadie Smith

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