#length

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

#back #banjo #beatles #been #better

It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations. ↗

— John Robert Gregg

#length #shading #stroke #use #variations

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #comfortable #fiction #four #genre

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#degree #length #success #time

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

#been #built #care #comparable #declared

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. ↗

— David Attenborough

#any #conclusion #driven #generation #genes

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#analyze #go #lengths #people #seems

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches. ↗

— Guy Forget

#biggest #count #fatigue #few #going

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

#characteristics #could #electromagnetic #example #extent

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#compulsion #health #laborer #length #life