Quotes About Length

My wings grow, slightly longer than the length of my back. The gossamer width of them pushes free. They unfurl with a soft whisper on the air—a sigh. As if they, too, seek relief. Freedom.

Life is too short, and DNA too long.

Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate.

'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.

When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.

Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.

if you formed all the DNA in your body into a single strand, it would stretch ten billion miles, to beyond Pluto.

New Rule: Any tattoo that has more than one line is too long.

I think an actor should look for a good role irrespective of its length.

I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size

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.

I have read 10,000 word articles that were a complete waste of time.  And I've read 500 word articles that have changed my life.

I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.

A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life.

the elephant had stepped across the body of a snake which was dragging itself through the jungle.  'So far as I could see,' he said, 'it must have been eighty or one hundred feet in length.

if an atom were magnified to be as large as the observable universe, the same magnification would make the Planck length the size of an average tree.

Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

I love the 'Dark Knight' movies, and 'Dark Knight' and the last one are well over two hours, and I could've sat there for three and a half hours, so if it's good you have some leeway.

I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages.

There's a Poe thing, right? "One out of one hundred things is discussed at great length because it really is obscure. Ninety-nine out of one hundred things are obscure because they're discussed at more length than they need to be.

I wouldn't be lying. I'd just be editing my report for length.