Quotes About Length

It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

I am not afraid of slowing down moments - if you have the right emotion in the right place at the right time, you can have any length of film you want.

There are some days on which we have smart running sessions, which I like. A smart run is to practice running between wickets, so we run the length of the pitch. But runs that are 35-40 minutes long, I find tough.

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

I have really long legs, so I like cropped pants that make it look like I intentionally wanted my pants short instead of pants that happen to be too short for me.

Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

measured his own length in the Flemish mud and skidded forward, all elbows and knees; then he jerked erect again, breathless, desperate and angered, at the heart of a sudden

FOR THE SHORTEST month, drab February can last for ever.

What finger-shaped Florida lacks in breadth it makes up for in length; Tallahassee is 480 miles from Miami (farther than New York City is from Cleveland).

What's the point of shorts if they're not short?

I don't understand longer shorts. I don't think they look good on anyone.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

If you look at all the great shot-blockers of all time, they had length, and they had instincts. Even when you look at guards, like Dwyane Wade. He's one of the best shot-blocking guards ever, and he has great instincts. He's kind of cat-like.

I think my wingspan helps me out on defense, because I can cover a little more ground and block a few more shots.

My problem with boxer briefs is sometimes they are a little too short, and they ride up your leg.

The sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill their two ridiculous shadows of unequal length, that trailed behind them slowly over the tall grass without bending a single blade.

MSE has that property—and it is the only definition of overall error that has it. In figure 6, we have computed the value of MSE in the set of five measurements for ten possible integer values of the line's true length.

Aged drakes sometimes will not be fertile until much later in the breeding season, when natural day length and temperatures have increased. Some drakes will remain fertile until they are ten years of age or older, but typically their best breeding age is six months to three years.