Length Quotes
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing
There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.
At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".
Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.
For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.
A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!
A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.
Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.
I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.
Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.
If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.
The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.
People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.
You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.