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Quotes About Duration

The morning overstays its welcome long before noon.
~ Richard Powers
The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.
~ Rick Moody
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
~ Seneca the Younger
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.
~ Seneca the Younger
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
~ Mitch Daniels
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.
~ William Shakespeare
This will last out a night in Russia,When nights are longest there.
~ William Shakespeare
The term 'metaphor' itself is seen to identify a verbal process whereby two discrete objects or ideas become linked, but in a very particular way, such that, for the duration of the metaphor, one of the items actually becomes the other, and vice versa.
~ David Punter
desfiin??m timpul prin repetare.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
twelve years and eight months
~ Jeanne Birdsall
care about right now is how long this is
~ Jeff Shaara
They showed up right after you got there?" I asked. "Well, no, Erik and I smoked some weed first. I guess we were there for an hour or so." "Maybe an hour and a half," said Erik. "That long?" "It was good weed.
~ Jeff Strand
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
A duration is a concrete slab of nature limited by simultaneity which is an essential factor disclosed in sense-awareness.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
La velocidad pura, cuya finalidad no es ganar tiempo sino huir del tiempo y de todos los lastres que arrastra la duración, en el cenagal de los pensamientos sin atadura, de los cuerpos tristes, de las vidas obesas y de las rumias asmáticas
~ Amelie Nothomb
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
~ DeWitt Clinton
My first mission was six and a half months. We weren't exactly sure how long it was going to be because I went up and back on the space shuttle, which was dependent on weather for launch and landing.
~ Sunita Williams
Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience enjoys watching stuff on the go, they prefer to watch it alone. It is isolated viewing while cinema is collective viewing.
~ Arbaaz Khan
You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.
~ Kel Mitchell
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
~ Keenen Ivory Wayans
I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell.
~ Richard Siken
Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
~ Myles Munroe
Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson