Quotes About Duration

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

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Soma may make you lose a few years in time,' the doctor went on. 'But think of the enormous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time. Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity... Of course' Dr Shaw went on, 'you can't allow people to go popping off into eternity if they've got any serious work to do.

It is not too bold a statement to say that a software development project is one of the riskiest investments a business makes. For example, the chance of a large software project being canceled increases with project duration. In the 1990s, those projects that exceeded two years of elapsed calendar time in development had a default rate that exceeded the worst rated junk bonds (something over 25%).

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Pero ahora me pregunto por qué nos empeñamos en creer que una vida completa debe durar por lo menos ochenta años y que cualquier cosa por debajo de eso es un timo

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

months was ten years.

I won't say I'm not fascinated by the way advertising works. I like the sleekness. But a picture in advertising doesn't last too long. They have to work for 30 seconds. And I'd like to reach at least two minutes. This is my goal: to break that two-minute record.

'America' took at least five days of actual filming.

A five-year contract is worth no more than a six-month contract these days; it's very concerning.

Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking.

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

I made $400.00 a week for my tenure at GLOW. I was there for about nine months.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

This paperwork gave John Jones and the three young agents immunity from American laws for the duration of the mission.

Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre... Voila toute la différence.

Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?

It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

A year? What is a year? All time is relative. One day may be a lifetime, a year can be forever. It is not the number of days but what goes into those days.