Quotes About Duration

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

Since that time, I have experienced a couple of other relapses, but the same type of knowledge therapy quickly defuses them, and the relapses are becoming progressively shorter in duration.

How long will you be gone?

But if Adam and Eve (when they were alone in the world) instead of their ordinary night's sleep, had passed the whole twenty-four hours in one continued sleep, the duration of that twenty-four hours had been irrecoverably lost to them, and been for ever left out of their account of time.

another. Whereas any constant periodical appearance, or alteration of ideas, in seemingly equidistant spaces of duration, if constant

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty

No problems are temporary until they are over. All problems are potentially permanent.

When I got on Twitter, that was the first time I was able to have lasting relationships with outsiders. And even though they were limited to those 140 characters, it was the duration of the friendships and the rapport we were able to develop.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Why would you have a seven-hour show? The fans are going to be so tired halfway through the show.

Dr. Dorothy Tennov, a psychologist, has done long-range studies on the in-love phenomenon. After studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

Being in love is an emotional and obsessive experience. However, emotions change and obsessions fade. Research indicates that the average life span of the "in love" obsession is two years.1 For some it may last a bit longer; for some, a bit less.

After studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

Experiente indragostirii[...]Are durata scurta (de obicei sub doi ani)si pare sa serveasca omenirii intr-un mod similar strigatului de imperechere al gastelor din Canada.

Research indicates that the average life span of the "in love" obsession is two years.1 For some it may last a bit longer; for some, a bit less. But the average is two years. Then we come down off the emotional high and those aspects of life that we disregarded in our euphoria begin to become important.

Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' This is Tarkovsky's aesthetic in a nutshell.

You want to be grateful for every precious second, but you simply can't do it. It's not in human nature to live life to the fullest. Haven't you ever noticed that equal amounts of pain and joy are not, in fact, equal in duration? Pain drags on until you wonder if life will ever be bearable again; pleasure, though, once it's reached its peak, fades faster than a trodden gardenia, and your memory searches in vain for the sweet scent.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The meetings have gone on for two decades.

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.