Span Quotes

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac. — Selena Gomez

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. — Ella Fitzgerald

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span. — Francis Bacon

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. — Lucy Larcom

He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom. — Joseph Heller

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. — Richard Louv

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. — Gore Vidal

You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span. — J Dilla

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being. — Eckhart Tolle

Menopause: it had to be the gods' ironic warning to (or just plain nasty trick on) humanity for having artificially extended the life span, — Haruki Murakami

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus. — Maura Tierney

With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole. — Michael Jesse Chonoles

Time, if this is what you want; you can have it since it is of minuscule significance in the life span of infinity. — Shaine Lake

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco. — Robert Morse

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. — Robert Redford

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long ... — Herb Caen

He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must. — Frances Hardinge

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. — Betty Friedan

If no one is barfing, then none of us is likely to die, at least over a time span of weeks. — Neal Stephenson

Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist. — Bill Bryson

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose. — Henry Rollins

I watch way too much C-SPAN. — Michael Moore

Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together. — Ren Ng

That's the rub with dogs. We pack a lifetime of love into a too-short span of time. We have to watch them die. We have to let them go. — Meg Donohue

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Too often we limit God by focusing upon our need in the present hour rather than how the Lord provides across the span of our entire existence. — George O. Wood

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. — Keith Gessen

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things. — Steve-O

Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out. — Melissa De La Cruz

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span. — Lee Daniels

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. — Tim Frick

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home. — Horace

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? — Horace

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. — Eckhart Tolle

For true growth and multiplication there must be a curtain time span. — Sunday Adelaja

I span the entire geek spectrum. — Joe Abercrombie

These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note span might be of use. — Ian McEwan

dialysis is therapy has been initiated, the average expected remaining life span is approximately 8 years. — Marie Stephens

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN — Chuck Grassley

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased. — Andrew Tobias

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.' (Sunshine) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. — Robert Fripp

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. — Allison Mack

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time. — Jamie Dornan

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell

It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days. — John Katzenbach

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff. — J. Michael Straczynski

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. — Charlie Munger

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span. — Seneca The Younger

I've got the attention span of a child. — Ricky Gervais

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere. — Anne Sexton

Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents. — Jen Hatmaker

So today, with our average life span in much of the world climbing past eighty years, we are already oddities living well beyond our appointed time. — Atul Gawande

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more — J. Aleksandr Wootton

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. — Michael Morpurgo

He has the attention span of a hummingbird. — Christopher Moore

The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span. — Thomas Browne

Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind, a curvilinear labyrinth. — J.G. Ballard

I think that all filth is local ... and that a joke isn't a joke unless it's at somebody's expense — Christopher Hitchens

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. — Martha Beck

My attention span is about this big. — Michael Tait

I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be. — Donald Trump

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants. — C. Walton Lillehei

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. — Robert Smithson

How can someone be so close to you and then so far away in the span of a single movement? — Sarah McCarry

Most people are not auditory learners and struggle to keep focused for any period of time, especially now in the era of the short attention span. — Jim Putman

The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem.
It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit. — Helen Fielding

Your brand of pain in the assedness extends greater lengths. It might even span dimensions. — Kristen Ashley

He had wasted the span of my entire life. — Cameron Dokey

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. — Laurence Sterne

How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words? — Chloe Neill

There are babies a span long in hell. — John Calvin

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

And in the span of a single second we were no longer across the hall from each other - — Gena Showalter

To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science. — Liu Cixin

on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions. — Anthony Doerr

Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place. — Connie Eble

I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span. — King Tuff

The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds. — William Zinsser

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well. — Jai Courtney

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span. — Henry David Thoreau

moments bleed together, no span to time — Kami Garcia

He said ... Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today. — Jon Ronson

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time. — Dave Brubeck

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin

An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in -
of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon. — Sreesha Divakaran

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. — Maira Kalman

My attention span and my available time and my caring-whatsoever-about-this-mess are not guaranteed to exist in Later Land, so I can't go there. The — Dana K. White

Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time? — Rachel Spangler

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. — E.B. White

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. — Ellen DeGeneres

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN. — Emile Hirsch

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man. — Francois Rabelais

In the span of a few minuted, he'd gone from his usual Mr. Cranky-Pants to Sir Kissy Smiles-A-Lot. — Julie Ann Walker

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans. — Emma Watson

the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again. — Pema Chodron