Quotes About Width

#1. 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

#2. What is that which cannot be contained by volume,for it has neither height, nor breadth, nor length, nor width? It constantly weighs on us, but its weight cannot be determined. It is a liquid, but it's viscosity is ever changing. Although we measure it, it cannot be measured.

Marcia E. Letaw

#3. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

#4. But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

George MacDonald

#5. Maybe I was tired and irritable. Maybe I felt a little guilty. I could learn to hate this guy without even knowing him. I could just look at him across the width of a cafeteria and want to kick his teeth in.

Raymond Chandler

#6. According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

Roy H. Williams

#7. I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

#8. The Secret Service agents had been trained to think of every possible scenario...but nowhere in any training or manual was it ever mentioned that the width of the door on Air Force One was just a few inches too narrow for a casket.

Gerald Blaine

#9. Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.

Glenn Hoddle

#10. This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw.

Michael Moorcock

#11. We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Evan Esar

#12. 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

#13. My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

Nicki Minaj

#14. You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H.L. Mencken

#15. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.

Bram Stoker

#16. Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my fraility. My lifetime is no longer than the width of my hand. It is only a moment, compared to yours.

Deborah Harkness

#17. Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.

Ronnie Coleman

#18. People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.

David Brooks

#19. K-turned across the width of Janet Salter's street. The

Lee Child

#20. When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.

Derf

#21. The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#22. Should be a pleasant flight, Mr. and soon-to-be Mrs. Ryel," the pilot said. Jared's grin stretched the width of his face. "I might have paid him extra to say that." "I figured as much," I teased.

Jamie McGuire

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

John Clayton

#24. These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.

Jim Michaels

#25. The universe expanded by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in .00000000000000000000000000000000001 second. It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ten million times the width of the Milky Way.

Stephen Hawking

#26. Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Max Beckmann

#27. Lauren woke wedged against Ryder, her back to his front, his arm wrapped around her belly and one strong thigh between hers. If she was looking for space, she had about a hair's width.

Cindy Skaggs

#28. The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Matt Chandler

#29. We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

David Levithan

#30. There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.

Srividya Srinivasan

#31. Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Jay McInerney

#32. The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

Hans Hofmann

#33. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Graham Greene

#34. I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

#35. When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.

Simon Norfolk

#36. The sun is the width of a human foot.

Heraclitus

#37. I needed this eternal truth [...] I needed the sense that this invisible world was somehow propping up the visible one, that this one, true line extended infinitely, without width or area, confidently piercing through the shadows. Somehow, this line would help me find peace.

Yoko Ogawa

#38. The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Aldous Huxley

#39. The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.

John Von Neumann

#40. Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

Sara Teasdale

#41. Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.

Dorian Yates

#42. Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

#43. I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.

Matthew Rhys

#44. I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?

Philippa Gregory

#45. They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a triumphal march. The heart of D'Artagnan swam in delirium; he marched between Athos and Porthos, pressing them tenderly.

Alexandre Dumas

#46. The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple.

Edith Wharton

#47. Arsenal's width comes from wide areas

Jamie Redknapp

#48. How do you measure someone's life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they've touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough.

Yvonne Woon

#49. Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

Sue Naegle

#50. A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen

#51. No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#52. A trio of teenagers, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, drift-netting the width of the pavement.

David Mitchell

#53. Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

Jack Nicklaus

#54. A nanometer is so small, you would need to slice the width of a human hair one hundred thousand times to reach a nanometer.

Peter M. Hoffmann

#55. Width of life is more important than length of life.

Avicenna

#56. I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#57. His muscles glistened, wet as if he'd just swum a great distance. To his side, he carried a massive Shardblade, point down, sticking about a finger's width into the stone, his hand on the hilt. The Blade reflected torchlight; it was long, narrow, and straight, shaped like an enormous spike.

Brandon Sanderson

#58. It is good practice to provide width and height measurements for every object element.

Anonymous

#59. Love is like an unfathomable idea. An idea that is slightly above euphoria, yet a fingers width from heaven.

Shannan Jacoby

#60. He was about an inch shorter than me, about half the width of me, and certainly not as good looking. Not everyone can be me. Who

J.R. Rain

#61. Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

George M. Whitesides

#62. It's not how many followers you have, it's how many care. It's not width, it's depth. It's not how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#63. Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman, the stars that stand above the halls of Palladios have not yet disappeared behind the domes of San Marco. But only since then has the world become the world.

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

#64. People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

Richard Dawkins

#65. Tap, hold, and release on any word to look it up. Users are presented with a tool bar of available actions for their selection. Each button in the tool bar has variable width except for the search

Anonymous

#66. The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life.

Spike Milligan

#67. The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

Lionel Shriver

#68. Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

Paul McEuen

#69. Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

Bill Veeck

#70. And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Charles Dickens

#71. Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

Alfred North Whitehead

#72. Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both.

Matt Ridley

#73. Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height

Leon Eisenberg

#74. If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

Jeremy Narby

#75. Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

Michel De Montaigne

#76. The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart - idea of thing, reality of thing - the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

Jamaica Kincaid

#77. Is to make them grow tall. For it contributes to height of stature when the vitality is not impeded and hindered by a mass of nourishment which forces it into thickness and width,

Plutarch

#78. Maybe if the death had occurred on the other side of the street, I'd be watching from here with different kids, acting as foolish. Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street.

Dean Koontz

#79. Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

Sam Kean

#80. Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning

Priyavrat Thareja