Length Quotes

722 Length quotes by 591 unique authors

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
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was… — Richard Stallman
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things… — James Surowiecki
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. — Rabindranath Tagore
The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell… — Matt Taibbi
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length,… — Henry David Thoreau
It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard… — Iyanla Vanzant
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has… — George Washington
I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired. — David Walliams
Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of… — Joss Whedon
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health… — Betty White
I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're… — Kate Winslet
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of… — James Wolcott
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's… — Helen Fisher
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein,… — Bill Bryson
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun… — Ken Follett

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