Top 599 Span Quotes & Sayings

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I've got a short memory span.

My attention span was not great.

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

I span the entire geek spectrum.

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

I watch way too much C-SPAN.

I have a short attention span.

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

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

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

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

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

Anne Briggs is great, and I love Sandy Denny and Steeleye Span.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

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

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.

There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

I've got the attention span of a child.

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

My attention span is very short.

I have a very short attention span.

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.

I've always had a bad attention span.

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

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

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

I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.

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

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

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

The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Attention span. What are they talking about? If it's good, it'll drag you in.

Every problem has a limited life span.

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

If u were Pinocchio, ur nose wld span the state.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

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

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

I've got no attention span.

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

There are babies a span long in hell.

If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!