Top 599 Span Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
Explore popular Span quotes.
Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.
I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.
The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.
A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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.
As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.
I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.
They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.
I always say the Boston Celtics of the 1960s were the only true dynasty, because they won nine titles in a 10-year span.
Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.
No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.
Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc.
The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.
A comedian's career span is five or 10 years. I am lucky to have worked with so many distinguished actors and their grandsons.
'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.
I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.
...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
Korea achieved economic development in a short span of time, which is why competition can be more intense here than in other countries.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.
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.
I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.
False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.
It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?
I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown. I didn't have much of an attention span.
The career span for athletes is very short-lived. So you aren't being, perhaps, the smartest person if you don't take care of your family when you're able to.
Cancer has been the No. 1 cause of death during the last half-century. The trend is getting even worse as the average life span increases.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
TV works at such amazing deadlines and the audiences you're catering to is a very different audience than the one that watches films as the attention span is less.
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn't interested in events and ideas.
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
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 can't even stay with my wife Saloni and my two daughters for a long span of time, as I have to travel all over the world for concerts.
The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.
Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
