#length

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #length




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

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.


Robert Hall


#length #only #seek #understanding #wisdom

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

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.


John Badham


#about #attention #attention span #great #just

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

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.


Ron Fournier


#domestic #focus #great #home #house

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


#continue #exposure #fifteen #fifteen minutes #first

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.


Claude Nicollier


#general #more #objects #processes #range

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.


Charles Francis Richter


#astronomical #astronomy #being #brightness #depending