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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
— Francis Bacon
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
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
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
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.
— Eckhart Tolle
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
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
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
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
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
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
of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon. — Sreesha Divakaran
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
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