Length Quotes

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

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 declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

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 the ocean.

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.

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 I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.