Span Quotes
276 quotes by 255 authors
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Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the…
— Laini Taylor
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Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear…
— John Keats
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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
— Seneca the Younger
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The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes,…
— Juvenal
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A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In…
— John Steinbeck
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the…
— Lewis Mumford
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My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can…
— Ridley Pearson
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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a…
— John Polkinghorne
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I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go…
— Amy Sherman-Palladino
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The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I…
— Ryan Adams
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I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love…
— Robert Morse
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How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands -…
— Mel Torme
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If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through…
— Lucretius
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We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought…
— Hans Zinsser
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Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller…
— Max Greenfield
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Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people…
— Brian Boitano
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Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his…
— Chris Crutcher
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I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
— Jeff Daniels
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No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.
— Henry Rollins
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