Span Quotes

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.