Quotes About Duration

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Time had passed, it was hard to know how much time, because time was strange now, stretching, compressing, unreliable. A week could be a month long. A lifetime could pass in a day.

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.

A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.

lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous. One second of deeply felt terror lasts longer than ten regular seconds.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

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.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

One year to me is just a small section of life. For most humans, one year is a long time and so much happens. But for the universe, it's very temporary.

When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

T20 has become a longer and longer format of the game. It is more than four hours in a lot of parts of the world.

This October like November, That August like a hundred thousand hours, And that September, A hundred thousand dragging sunlit days, And half October like a thousand years...

depois, comi o meu jantar de vegetariano, fiquei satisfeito com a minha digestão e tive algumas apreensões quanto a saber se a minha vida bastaria para toda a duração da minha vida.

There has been a lot of talk of the four-day Tests but I like five-days. I don't make the decisions of how it all works out but five-day Tests is what it is all about.

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.

weeks, by the end of June it had stretched to almost

Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year

The Latham Time Warp. Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year.