Top 1200 Life Span Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

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My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

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

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

In a short span of time, I happened to do quality films and managed a good fan-following.

I'm not sure what the average career span of a WWE superstar is, but I've exceeded that by a long way.

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

The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?

If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat.

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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

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

I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

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

One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this energy or potential energy...one can always check the New York Times, or look at real estate, or investigate some intriguing new person in one's life. The span and space for writing feels like a tunnel under these massive mountains of information.

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.

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

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

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

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

I am not at all in a rush to make a career that only lasts for a short span of time.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

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

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

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too well to end in vain: Is the gain small then? Love laughs at "never", Outlives our life, exceeds the span Appointed to mere mortal man: All which love is and does and can Is all in all then.

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

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.