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Quotes About Length

The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort or another—length, angles, area, etc. Zero space didn't make sense.
~ Chris Anderson
Aingeal , there is only one thing on my body that's ten inches long, and if you'll recall, the scar is no' it.
~ Kresley Cole
Love in full life and length, not love ideal, No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name, But something better still, so very real...
~ George Gordon Byron
The longer the title, the less important the job.
~ George Stanley McGovern
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
~ Randall Jarrell
The longest day is soon ended.
~ Pliny, the Younger
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.
~ Alex Comfort
Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.
~ J.R. Ward
Life was too short, no matter how long you lived. -Ehlena's thoughts
~ J.R. Ward
There are different types of cornerbacks: you've got your longer guys that will try to get physical with you and use their length, and you've got your quick guys that will try to use their quickness, and then you've got your 'tweener' guys that will try to use both.
~ Julian Edelman
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
~ Gertrude Stein
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.
~ John Badham
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.
~ Pat Toomey
I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.
~ Chris Abani
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
~ Plutarch
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
~ J. D. Salinger
Then spoke at length the warder maid, With hands upraised and sore afraid: "My Lord and King, the queen has sought The mourner's cell with rage distraught.
~ V?lm?ki
Wenn du so lang wärst, wie du dumm bist, könntst du aus der Dachrinne saufen.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words—monstrous
~ James A. Michener
I think I'm underrated on defense. I try to use my length and feet and put pressure on players.
~ Tony Snell
The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
~ Benjamin Wittes
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
~ Robert Hall
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
~ Ira Hayes