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After a certain length of time has passed, things harden up. Like a cement hardening in a bucket. And we can't go back anymore — Haruki Murakami

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm's length. — Christophe Agou

He had fallen head over heels for a devil with blue eyes and waist-length blonde hair and a body that would tempt a man into sin and death. — Francine Rivers

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Life is too short when you think of the length of death — Sean Mangan

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

As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher. — W. Terry Whalin

Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise. — Ben Crenshaw

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown. — Arthur Helps

Not the length of your life, but your actions in life, will define you. — Debasish Mridha

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end. — Aeschylus

Bullets like cocks, came in a variety of different sizes and length but were all more or less the same shape. — Nicole Castle

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well. — Alfred Hershey

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey. — Publilius Syrus

Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany. — William Hjortsberg

atop his head a goofy skin cap simulating baldness and fringed with shoulder-length scraggle. — Jonathan Kellerman

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself. — Jules Renard

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out. — Jim Sullivan

At length her hair came loose and whisked my face. I did not mind such blond whips of sunlight. — Daniel Kraus

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover. — Rosamunde Pilcher

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. — Ruth Ozeki

Then I swept my hand across the length of the kitchen windows, sending salt spraying all over the kitchen floor.
It's time to let the ghosts in. — Kami Garcia

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it. — Loretta Young

Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effort. — Guy Gavriel Kay

All fingers are not same in length but when they are bent all stands equal. Life becomes easy when we bend and adjust to situations. — Herryicm

If you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a cafe becomes a world. — Marisa De Los Santos

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. — Cy Twombly

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length. — Andrew Mitchell

That was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble. — Jeff VanderMeer

On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really. — Rachel Sklar

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on. — Marietta Holley

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really. — Vladimir Nabokov

No one could control the length of their life, but they could control how they lived it. — Lindy Zart

Shorth is better than length. — Dr. Seuss

All conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. — Avicenna

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. — John Byrne

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God. — Margaret Of Valois

Allegories drawn to great length will always break. — Samuel Johnson

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth. — Chuck Smith

Anyway, who in their right mind would ever say a person was supposed to be happy? In your life happiness is either cut to your length or isn't. — Howard Norman

Life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength. — Annie Dillard

length of our love. she was your eyes the day i met you. remember, you and i. — Nayyirah Waheed

They were large, even for the mus decumanus, which sometimes measures fifteen inches in length, — H.P. Lovecraft

I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it. — Sonakshi Sinha

She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed, — Henry David Thoreau

There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form. — Andreas Deja

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. — Ovid

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up. — Tom Ford

Do you intend to get any closer or is arm's length the new black? — Jennifer DeLucy

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. — Alexander Pope

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous. (VII) — Aristotle.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman — Chrissie Wellington

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself. — Jeanette Winterson

She wore her brown hair chin-length and was dressed for — Rod Hoisington

It is not the length of life, but it is the love for life, that determines the value of your life. — Debasish Mridha

I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care. — A.S. King

Good swimmers at length are drowned. — George Herbert

I eased my length into her until I reached her cervix with a few inches to spare and butted against it seeking entrance into her womb. — Jordan Silver

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well. — Diane Ackerman

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly. — Sophocles

The length of your days does not belong to you. — Mitch Albom

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass. — Jay Cooke

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of the roots may reach up to 380 miles (613km)! — Jenny Kellett

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron

If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it. — David Blaine

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored. — Harrison Ford

At length, in depth, their spirited exchange culminated in a mutual exclaim of Party understanding. — Adam Johnson

I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length. — Sue Tompkins

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando! — Rebecca Hall

The boy really needed a haircut. Didn't he know that shoulder-length hair on guys just wasn't sexy unless you looked like Johnny Depp? — Jody Morse

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. — John Lyly

But come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length
It selfe o'er us to advance. — John Donne

I have no history but the length of my bones. — Robin Skelton

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. — John Dryden

His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract. — Ron MacLean

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike

What is the acceptable length of time before you change your life to be with the person you love? A day was all I needed. — Kerry Heavens

I miss it if I'm not in it for any length of time; I don't feel comfortable. I want trees and I want frequent rain. — Murray Morgan

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length. — Hall Caine

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before — Herman Melville

If you want full length skirts and polo neck jumpers, then I suggest you find someone your own age. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place? — Thomas Christopher Greene

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. — Richard Arnold Epstein

He came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length. — Patrick Suskind

No one has any control of anything, for any great length of time. — Rae T. Alexander

Why don't universities specify the length of time a degree will be fully applicable and useful? — Dan Miller

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose. — Neil Simon

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light — Dan Fogelberg

Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning. — Jacob Slichter

A line is length without breadth. — Euclid

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet. — Henry Ford

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length. — Rex Brandt

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana

Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. — Kiki Dimoula

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength. — Matt Dunn

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