Span Quotes

276 quotes by 255 authors

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. — Richard Louv
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. — Brian Ferneyhough
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the… — John Hodgman
For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills. — Mari Evans
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. — Keith Gessen
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent… — Rudolf Arnheim
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school… — Karl Lehmann
I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet. — Nick Rhodes
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff. — J. Michael Straczynski
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span. — Noam Chomsky
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby
We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life… — Brian Lamb
They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human… — Anna Deavere Smith
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous… — H P Lovecraft
Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have… — Marvin Minsky
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of… — Charles Lindbergh
I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets… — Courteney Cox

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