Quotes About Length

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

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

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

To its left stood a transistor radio, which was emitting and indeed had been emitting for some considerable time, a symphonic movement of vaguely romantic cast; from the movement's excessive length, vacuity and derivativeness, Fen judged it to be by Mahler. In

I always thought it was a myth about electric eels having enough of a charge to kill someone." "It's no myth. I've studied up on it for this assignment. The electrophorus electricus grows to a length of eight or ten feet, and weighs perhaps as much as ninety pounds.

Then, at the last and only couplet fraughtWith some unmeaning thing they call a thought,A needless Alexandrine ends the song,That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy.

I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

How could I not have known that there are little things the size of "Planck length" in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

care about right now is how long this is

there's only one part of a man's anatomy that any potential mate should worry about measuring, and that is the length of his vasopressin receptor gene.

It is obvious that the "unit"—inch—has no value by itself, but is very precious as a unit for measuring the phenomenon of length, which it perfectly represents, and that is why it was introduced.

She measured 144 feet over-all, with a 25-foot beam

And here was a summer day, asking to be longer. As if a summer's day wasn't long enough.

He walked the length of the gleaming torpedoes and halted before another steel door in a cross bulkhead. He opened this, and beyond, four feet away, was another such heavy door set in another such bulkhead. The sills were about eighteen inches

Most elite players want to maximize the length of the contract, no matter the money.

On short courses I can still play good, even with my added length.

If you are good enough to play international cricket, you can take wickets - but you have to bowl the right length.

Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.