Length Quotes - Page 18

• Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Writing, Kitchen

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Long, Together, Passing

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• Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Running, Doe, Different

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• Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Understanding, Nuisance, Decay

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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

  Andrew Mitchell

  Realizing, Bootstraps

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• If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.

  Jan Frazier

  Distance, Way, Path

  Jan Frazier, Barbi Schulick (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.190, Weiser Books

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• It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person, and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.

  Jason O'Mara

  Fans, Able, Exciting

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

  Guy Pearce

  Roles, Want, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Lying, Fall, Illustration

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.37, Destiny Image Publishers

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

  Sidney Lumet

  Cutting, Rooms, Destruction

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• Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Weight, Bears, Crosses

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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• You have to have all these elements of a feature but with a third of the length. And also the development process - there are so many more steps in getting notes from the studio, getting notes from the network.

  John Francis Daley

  Elements, Development, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school for work, I always feel so huge. Everything seems so little. The lockers seem smaller than I remember and the length of the hallways seem shorter when you're a kid.

  Judy Greer

  Kids, School, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

  Jackie Gleason

  Character, Personality, Television

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• In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

  Tom Ford

  Love Is, Hair, Pants

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Looks, Way

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.178, Penguin

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• I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.

  Jack Kirby

  Knowing, Life And Death, Done

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles. I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles. People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made. I hope it's of interest to people. One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  Brian May

  Queens, Thinking, Band

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• If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Disappointing, Great Things

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Point Break, Trying

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• In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Yield, Civilization

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Track, Ponds

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

  George Carlin

  Weekend, Amusement, Sometimes

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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