Length Quotes

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

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

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

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

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.