Quotes About Duration

Arousal and embarrassment warred for space inside her, but she managed both with equal aplomb—she was nothing if not an excellent multitasker. "How long have you been there?

A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.

But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement — that is to say, in duration.

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Enough funds remain to support her longer than she expects to live.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them?

The future is much like the present, only longer.

The basic elements of any sound are loudness, pitch, contour, duration (or rhythm), tempo, timbre, spatial location, and reverberation.

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

Are people really supposed to be done grieving after two months? Can't grief last six months or a year or, in some form or another, an entire lifetime?

In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

I've had cartons of milk that have lasted longer than most of my relationships.

Friendship is far more tragic than love, it lasts longer.

There is always going to be a point where your form becomes patchy and it's down to how long it lasts really.

I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time.

People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.

Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long.

This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection

Although a Major League Baseball game lasts for around three hours, there is only around fifteen minutes of actual playing time.

Fish and Guests in three days are stale.

Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de réis