Quotes About Duration

It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour.

In Sarileru... my role duration was 15 minutes. Since I knew the scope I didn't mind it.

I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.

A fight is usually longer than five seconds.

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless.

Rice University found that people judge sounds that increase or decrease in pitch to be longer than sounds of the same duration and constant pitch. The direction of change does not matter. The amount of change drives the effect.

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

Basketball can only go for so long.

If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it. And so, if inflicting three years of fear and suffering was wrong, as everyone would agree, then inflicting three seconds of it was no less wrong. He caught a fleeting glimpse of God in the math here, in the infinitesimal duration of a life.

But as human happiness is of a very short duration, so in those days were human fashions upon which it entirely depends.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced.

When we started 'Perry Mason,' we thought it might go a year.

I don't want my shows to run for more than a year as you get bored doing the same role. But you don't want your show to end in three months either.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.