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Quotes About Duration

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years
~ Helen Fisher
I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
~ David Fincher
Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.
~ zimbardo philip
Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A limit-breaching intimacy persistently unfolds. Hurl a rock and you'll shatter an ontology, leave taxonomy in glistening shards.
~ Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
We all have a shelf life.
~ Jennifer Niven
Only for the duration, of course, for the foreseeable future, as the posters said. Though I was having trouble foreseeing any future. How would we ever get back to normal after the pandemic
~ Emma Donoghue
There is no such thing as an ending, or a beginning for that matter, everything is middle.
~ Eoin Colfer
Sesquihoral (adj.) Lasting an hour and a half. Because sometimes you just don't feel like saying "an hour and a half." Short-thinker
~ Ammon Shea
time, a reconstruction of the event according to an artificial and abstract duration: dramatic duration. There is not a single one of these commonly accepted assumptions of the film spectacle that is not challenged by neorealism.
~ André Bazin
Voittamisen riemu on pienempi kuin häviämisen tuska, eikä hyvä tunne kestä yhtä kauaa kuin paha, ei läheskään.
~ Andre Agassi
each second was a century
~ Andrew Field
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
~ Catherine Keener
Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.
~ Abby Lee Miller
I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.
~ Lindsay Davenport
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
~ Graeme Murphy
If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.
~ Marc Blucas
I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.
~ Laila Robins
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
~ Robert Crippen
Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.
~ Mike Scully
I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
~ Dan Quisenberry
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
~ Dan Quisenberry
I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
~ Eli Roth
Morale problems could be seen in the decision of nearly ninety U.S. crews in March and April to fly to neutral countries, usually Sweden or Switzerland, to be interned for the duration. The
~ Rick Atkinson
Mas quando os benefícios são mais notáveis, a duração do desejo de retribuir é prolongada.
~ Robert B. Cialdini