Quotes About Length

All the muscles of the palms had been carefully cut from the bones, doubling the length of the fingers, and Sandoz's hands reminded John of childhood Halloween skeletons.

Good God, man! That's more than half the length of the Challenger. A creature that size… we'd need a bigger boat.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Essere al mondo, per quello che ho potuto capire, è quando ti è affidata una persona e tu ne sei responsabile e allo stesso tempo tu sei affidato a quella persona ed essa è responsabile per te. Sette anni non furono pochi. Anche se fossero stati la metà o la metà ancora, non sarebbe stato poco. Non ci si può lamentare della brevità, non è giusto, ma della lunghezza si.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.

I'd definitely use a 48-inch driver if I could control it.

Pretrial detentions of any length can have devastating consequences for a defendant and their families, and therefore should be imposed with great care.

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

I have to get my stuff made custom if I want my gown to touch the floor, my sleeves to touch my wrist.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

They were large, even for the mus decumanus, which sometimes measures fifteen inches in length

The ball touched the paint a lot of times. When we talk about touching the paint, the ball touches the key for making a layup or making a play for a teammate. We've got to use our length and our speed. Defensively, getting deflections. Give up one shot and rebound.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

I always give weightage to performance more than the length of my character. That has always been my criteria for signing a film.

The sensation wasn't repellent, though she had believed somewhere it would be. Someone had left her with that impression, but, whoever they were, they were wrong. It was ... mesmerizing. She could sense the length of him against her buttocks as well as a kind of heaviness, a substantive presence. He was changing right there under her, growing longer and thicker, information she acquired through the unlikely source of her bum, while he kissed her mouth.

while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons each at the musketeer (which everyone knows is the opening at the wrist), there are, indeed, eighteen buttons on each in length. That button is a standard of measurement of approximately one inch. The approximate part is because it is a French standard of measurement.

A word about weather There is no weather per se in this book. Passing reference is made to weather in a few instances. Assume whatever season you like throughout. Summer makes the most sense in a book of this length. That way, pages do not have to be used up describing people taking off and putting on overcoats.

Your name's longer'n you are.

Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.