Length Quotes - Page 25

• The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Years, Funny Marriage, Parent

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• String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?

  Willie Garson

  Long, Mechanic, Quantum

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• And trust. It takes a long time to trust someone. You work with people, anybody you dont know, it takes about a films length to get to know each other. Then if you move on, you have to start right back at the beginning. But if you carry on together and try doing different things, you can all grow together.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Moving, Long, People

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

  Michael Jackson

  People, Bewildered

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• Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such lengths to fund anti-Communist forces. When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the President's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-Communist freedom fighters sold out by the Democrats.

  Ann Coulter

  Cutting, Iran, White

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• Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.

  Roger Ebert

  Dog, Sight, Cities

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.238, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had, and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to...my own life.

  Newt Gingrich

  Spring, Hate, Men

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• Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein. A useless life is short if it lasts a century. There are greater and better things in us all, if we would find them out. There will always be in this world – wrongs. No wrong is really successful. The day will come when light and truth and the just and the good shall be victorious and wrong as evil will be no more forever.

  Walter Breuning

  Life Is Short, Successful, Light

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• I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

  Arabella Weir

  Cry, Queues

  "I don't understand boys - they do things like stand in rivers waiting for fish they know won't come" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

  E. V. Lucas

  Dog, Lying, Legs

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• Length is usually intensity.
  Not time.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Intensity

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• Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

  Douglas Adams

  Struggle, Winning, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

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• The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Journey, Moments

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.35, re.press

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• I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Long, Mind

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• We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

  Barbara Hershey

  Education, Depth, Deep Relationship

  "20 Questions: Barbara Hershey". Playboy Interview, May 1987.

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• (The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.

  Joe Walsh

  Real, Believe, Media

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• The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

  Austin O'Malley

  Interesting, Important, Facts

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• Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Light, Self, White

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• Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Art, Book, Perfect

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• Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Halloween, Racing, Scare

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

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• Won't cha...picture life as my wife, just think:
  Full length mink, fat X and O links,
  Bracelets to match, conversation was all that,
  Showed you the safe combinations and all that.
  Guess you could say you's the one I trusted...
  Who would ever think that you would spread like mustard?

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Thinking, Wife

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Long, Dreamer

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• I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thank You, Tunes, Orchestra

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• Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Children, Government, May

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