Quotes About Length

twenty-foot-long laminate table,

With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.

Have a little protection if that helps your bowler - Brett Lee always wanted a cover and a midwicket because they helped him bowl his natural length and made him more effective as a result.

I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

Trapping the river between the canyon's serpentine walls, the dam would create a slackwater reservoir 186 miles in length, the longest in the world, covering Creeping Dune to a depth of 350 feet, reaching up Lake Canyon as far as that dune which itself was once a dam.

short and long whitish sticks and thinner white sticks and something like a long, curved rod with ridges all along its length.

Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.

A length of wood does not by itself make a man wise, or noble, or powerful, any more than a length of steel does. Power comes from the flesh, my boy, and from the heart, and from the head. From the head most of all.

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

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

Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

A dozen pigeons roosting on the cathedral spire cataract down its length and wheel out over the sea.

Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.

I have a bus that's 40 feet long. When I was in training camp, I was scared to fly, so I used the bus.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. —Sir Winston Churchill Statesman 1874–1965

A recent study shows that the average length of tenancy for a typical customer is 11 months, and 24 months for the average commercial tenant.

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.

Description length is actually a measure of complexity

The great mystery of life is the length of it.

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.

THE MEMBERS DEBATED the executive at length three separate times during the Convention: early June, mid-July, and early September.