Quotes with length

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  • Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Louise Erdrich The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
    Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 37
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Douglas Adams The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Jean Rostand The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • John Lyly The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Samuel Smiles The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Lewis Carroll There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Euripides There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Abraham Cowley There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ben Stiller There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
    Reported in Inside Oscar 2
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Winston Churchill This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Tom Brokaw TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
    Tom Brokaw
    American television journalist and author (1940 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Aristotle We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Don Marquis We shall problably have nothing to say, but we intend to say it at great length.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Baba Kalyani We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Charles De Montesquieu What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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