Length Quotes

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.