Span Quotes

276 quotes by 255 authors

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and… — Eric Alterman
I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of… — Muhammad Ali
Civilizationâ€™s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. — Stewart Brand
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not… — Roger Ebert
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he… — William Faulkner
The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in… — Tal Farlow
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe… — Milton Friedman
I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate… — Rod Serling
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. — Gene Simmons
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. — Ella Fitzgerald
His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. — Elwyn Brooks White
This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was… — ElRay L. Christiansen
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music,… — Evan Parker
You donâ€™t pay attention man/thatâ€™s why your money is the size of your attention span. — J Dilla
It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a… — Jeremy Northam
The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth.… — Robert Baden-Powell
Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he… — Robert Baden-Powell

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