Length Quotes

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

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

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

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

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.

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.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Time at length becomes justice.

I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.