Quotes About Length

#1. 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.

Tim Roth

#2. He stared at her neck. Realization pulsed. He was looking at the bite he had given her. A hard length was growing against her hip. "So, is that your long, scaly, reptilian tail, or are you just happy to see me?" No, she did not just say that. Did she?

Thea Harrison

#3. Rojer nodded, but his eye grew wet. Leesha squeezed his hand. "Herb Gatherers see death often," she told him. "No one, no one, ever goes to the Creator with all their business complete. We all get a different length of time, but it needs to be enough, regardless.

Peter V. Brett

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

Harry Shearer

#5. The former slave told his audience that there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#6. With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

D. L. Hughley

#7. Reaching for a towel, I stole a glance of my glistening body in the floor-length mirror. I had always been comfortable in my own skin. I knew that not everyone appreciated a size 8 frame, but I worked hard to maintain it.

Cami Stark

#8. I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

John Ashbery

#9. No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Martha Beck

#11. He presented it with a length of string
and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor
to await the arrival of Autumn.

Edward Gorey

#12. I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

Sarah Dessen

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

John Heywood

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

Frank Darabont

#15. Peace and rest at length have come
All the day's long toil is past,
And each heart is whispering, 'Home,
Home at last.

Thomas Hood

#16. A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

William Stanley Jevons

#17. Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

Shannon A. Thompson

#18. I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans

Taylor Swift

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

Trevor Dunn

#20. length of our love. she was your eyes the day i met you. remember, you and i.

Nayyirah Waheed

#21. In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.

John Clayton

#22. A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury
yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100
feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can
remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.

Garrison Keillor

#24. Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.

Travis Bradberry

#25. Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.

Alfred Hershey

#26. Your ideal weight is the weight you happen to be when you can look at yourself naked in a full-length mirror and be happy with your shape.

Allen Carr

#27. Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Had I been too selfish? I had never known my mother, but I knew my life as it had been without her: the ship, the sea, the myths, the maps . . . and, yes, Kashmir. The pain I felt at the thought of losing him - the same pain that kept me at arm's length - gave me a hint of my father's own struggle.

Heidi Heilig

#29. In the 50,000 years that followed - a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed - the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.

Svante Paabo

#30. 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.

Jules Renard

#31. Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort.

Peter Watts

#32. And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.

Joanne Harris

#33. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

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

Mark Jason Dominus

#35. Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

Henry Miller

#36. I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy
old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#37. Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Carl D. Anderson

#38. What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

Nancy Astor

#39. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel De Montaigne

#40. Chase tugged my hips flush against his, and I felt a hard length between us. It was only a bulge against the leather of his pants, but it was enough to get me wetter than a rainforest between my legs.

Jasinda Wilder

#41. Reading is also traveling, with the eyes along the length of an idea, which can be folded up into the compressed space of a book and unfolded within your imagination and your understanding.

Rebecca Solnit

#42. We are of such value to God that He came to live among us ... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#43. When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Gunter Grass

#44. We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Robert Hall

#45. Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.

Julia Hill

#46. 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.

William Butler Yeats

#47. First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

Catherynne M Valente

#48. Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#49. Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to.

Matt Padwick

#50. I put on a good show. I strutted my new faith in high histrionic style. I believed what I was saying for the length of time I was saying it. I possessed a chameleon soul.

James Ellroy

#51. I grow impatient at the length of your exordium.

Plato

#52. The length of our lives are far shorter then we realise and half of the time when we become aware of such truth, we have lived most of it as someone else.

Nikki Rowe

#53. 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.

Edwin Way Teale

#54. I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively,

Michael Jackson

#55. Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Vitruvius

#56. 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.

Neil Gaiman

#57. The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.

Susan Stewart

#58. Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#59. Turning her body slightly to the left, he gently bends her knee, breaking eye contact to lick her slowly, from Venice to Trieste - then down the Croatian Coast, the length of Serenissima.

Kristen Caven

#60. 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.

Nicholas Royle

#61. Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

John Dryden

#62. There's a mathematics to nesting, I'm sure, that explains how length of stay + space available = accumulating way too much stuff.

Amy Smith

#63. Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.

Sara Maitland

#64. Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

Sidney Lumet

#65. Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Robert Benchley

#66. 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.

Kate Bosworth

#67. Sensed his darkness; his rage; his white-knuckle self discipline. She knew that the face he wore in her presence was not his own; other than his name, it was all she knew of him, despite the length of their acquaintance.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

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

Louise Erdrich

#69. A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#70. For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you're the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt.

Martin Cosgrove

#71. My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Jim Butcher

#72. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me we don't belong together.

Leigh Bardugo

#73. It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

Vladimir Nabokov

#74. The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.

Elizabeth Peters

#75. I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

Jay Roach

#76. According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.

Chuck Lorre

#77. It was not the caress of her lips the length of him was looking for, but the back of her throat.

Pauline Reage

#78. My dear," Rose said, "you might be surprised at how much happiness you can find in the pages of the shortest love stories. Unlike penises, their length truly does not count.

Samantha Sotto

#79. Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Thomas Hardy

#80. It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Craig Venter

#81. Looking in the full-length mirror, she thought, I've got everything I had twenty years ago - it's all just three inches lower.

Ken Follett

#82. She wore her brown hair chin-length and was dressed for

Rod Hoisington

#83. There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.

Andreas Deja

#84. Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends

Mads

#85. Maybe it's not about the length of time you've known someone; maybe it's about instant recognition on an unconscious level. Our souls know each other.

S.E. Hall

#86. The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#87. It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

Thomas Jefferson

#88. Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry.

Edward Gibbon

#89. Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#90. And just like that she was crying.
I felt a little like That Guy who holds a baby at arm's length because he's afraid it's going to pee on him.

Tessa Gratton

#91. My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Morgan Freeman

#92. He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

George R R Martin

#93. Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed,

Henry David Thoreau

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

Neal A. Maxwell

#95. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

Thomas Jefferson

#96. The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

Charles Spurgeon

#97. Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots.

Ulysses Brave

#98. 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.

Paul Simon

#99. After a certain length of time has passed, things harden up. Like a cement hardening in a bucket. And we can't go back anymore

Haruki Murakami

#100. If the stillness is Volcanic
In the human face
When upon a pain Titanic
Features keep their place-
If at length the smoldering anguish
Will not overcome-
And the palpitating Vinyard
In the dust, be overthrown?

Emily Dickinson