Length Quotes

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

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

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

[Donald] Trump had the opportunity to go after [Hillary] Clinton's emails at length if he wanted to, but he didn't.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renée Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!

Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue!

I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.