Quotes About Length

She was wearing something in purple suede that was too short for a skirt and too long for a belt.

The Mass. Ave. Bridge is open... Some MIT students once measured it by repeatedly placing an undergraduate named Smoot on the ground and marking off his length. Every six feet or so there is still the indication of one smoot, two smoots, painted on the pavement. I could never remember how many smoots long the bridge was.

I won't have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, 'Now settle down and do a long work, since you have shown the public that you can produce beautiful short poetry.' And their implication tells me that making two verses or a short poem does not satisfy their concept of what an accomplished poet should be able to do. Bulk they want, as evidence of a man's power.

Happiness makes up and height for what it lacks in length

Put this another way: she was only about twelve feet longer than a tennis court. And she had been designed not as a passenger ship, but for cargo.

Look!" Galileo commanded. "You take the focal length of the objective—for this one, a hundred minims—and you divide that by the focal length of the eyepiece, in this case eleven minims—and you get a number which identifies the device's power of magnification, thus here about nine times! It's a ratio! It's geometry again—

I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

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

You are quite . . . long," she said. "Have you ever measured it?" A glint flashed in Cameron's eyes. "No." "I must fetch a tape measure then." Cameron seized her wrist in an impossibly strong grip. "You are not going anywhere or fetching anything. Not now.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

Did life's penurious length Italicize its sweetness, The men that daily live Would stand so deep in joy That it would clog the cogs Of that revolving reason Whose esoteric belt Protects our sanity.

If I've gone to get a takeaway, and I get chips... I like to match up the chips in length. That is actually quite weird. Obviously, if I've got chips, I pick them out in twos. That's a weird thing as well. You know, if they're not the same length, well, I go hunting for the same length in chips.

It's things that you find difficult as a bowler in matches that you have to practise more. Some people don't, they just think line and length and forget about other things.

There are times I do single wicket bowling, and there are times I try, practise, hitting a specific length.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

I didn't get my hair cut for two movies, and it got a little long. I'm going back to a... not a crew cut. Back to, oh, about a Presbyterian length.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.

Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

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

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

Pau has a game that's impossible to imitate. He's so finesse and so skilled, it's impossible to imitate. Honestly, I'm a big fan of the game. I've never seen a player his size who has so many moves, so many counters and it's impossible. His length, his size, his skills - I mean, you can't teach that.