Quotes of: Length Keyword

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Florence King

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Gabriel Lippmann

So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake of reaching purification of view; purification of view is for the sake of reaching purification by overcoming doubt; purific...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Mr. Eddy: [to a tailgater after running him off the road] Don't tailgate! Don't you fucking ever tailgate! Do you know how much space is needed to stop a car traveling at 35 miles per hour? Six car lengths! Six fuckin' car lengths! That's a hundred a...

Lost Highway

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Milan Kundera

Turns out faerie-proofing a person required a length of chain that one could find in any hardware store...

Hold Tight

I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.

I Want

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

The Most Dangerous Game

I long for your love like the length of a midget.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

The Lightning Thief

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

Slavery in Massachusetts

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Soap

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

South of the Border, West of the Sun

...but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

The Thirteenth Tale

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Thomas Carlyle

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!

Terry Gilliam

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

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

Marilyn Monroe

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Manuel Puig

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

Jose Serrano

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

Gavid Hood