Quotes about Span

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. Votes: 4

Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span. Votes: 3

I grew up addicted to 'Star Trek' and 'Mission: Impossible.' Now I switch between 'South Park' and 'C-Span.' Votes: 3

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. Votes: 3

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Im an expert on surfing the channels, so Im always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours. Votes: 3

I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours. Votes: 3

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. Votes: 2

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac. Votes: 2

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. Votes: 2

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. Votes: 2

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. Votes: 2

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. Votes: 2

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person. Votes: 2

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. Votes: 2

'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. Votes: 2

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. Votes: 2

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man. Votes: 2

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. Votes: 2

I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who have their own personal favorites. When I do my show, I try to take into consideration all those people. Votes: 2

When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. Votes: 2

On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record. Votes: 2

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right? Votes: 2

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000? Votes: 2

I have a short attention span. Votes: 0

My attention span is very short. Votes: 0

I span the entire geek spectrum. Votes: 0

Every problem has a limited life span. Votes: 0

moments bleed together, no span to time Votes: 0

Music has no limits of a life-span. Votes: 0

I've always had a bad attention span. Votes: 0

There are babies a span long in hell. Votes: 0

I've got the attention span of a child. Votes: 0

He has the attention span of a hummingbird. Votes: 0

His attention span was not long, shall we say? Votes: 0

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. Votes: 0

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life. Votes: 0

A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Votes: 0

If u were Pinocchio, ur nose wld span the state. Votes: 0

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast. Votes: 0

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span. Votes: 0

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. Votes: 0

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them. Votes: 0

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar. Votes: 0

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. Votes: 0

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. Votes: 0

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet. Votes: 0

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. Votes: 0

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes. Votes: 0

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. Votes: 0

...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span. Votes: 0

Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. Votes: 0

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do. Votes: 0

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long... Votes: 0

I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things. Votes: 0

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span. Votes: 0

I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be. Votes: 0

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. Votes: 0

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. Votes: 0

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project. Votes: 0

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. Votes: 0

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills. Votes: 0

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. Votes: 0

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. Votes: 0

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. Votes: 0

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN Votes: 0

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? Votes: 0

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. Votes: 0

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. Votes: 0

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. Votes: 0

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. Votes: 0

I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. Votes: 0

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time. Votes: 0

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span. Votes: 0

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year. Votes: 0

You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span. Votes: 0

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. Votes: 0

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. Votes: 0

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. Votes: 0

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. Votes: 0

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. Votes: 0

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. Votes: 0

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. Votes: 0

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Votes: 0

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man. Votes: 0

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. Votes: 0

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span. Votes: 0

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. Votes: 0

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. Votes: 0

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see. Votes: 0

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well. Votes: 0

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long. Votes: 0

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. Votes: 0

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. Votes: 0

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. Votes: 0

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. Votes: 0

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span. Votes: 0

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants. Votes: 0

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. Votes: 0

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. Votes: 0

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN. Votes: 0

We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span. Votes: 0

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie Votes: 0

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. Votes: 0

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! Votes: 0

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things. Votes: 0

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. Votes: 0

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. Votes: 0

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them. Votes: 0

I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy. Votes: 0

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. Votes: 0

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span? Votes: 0

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus. Votes: 0

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive. Votes: 0

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. Votes: 0

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. Votes: 0

Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat. Votes: 0

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something. Votes: 0

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span? Votes: 0

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Votes: 0

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Votes: 0

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy Votes: 0

My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span. Votes: 0

You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you. Votes: 0

If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat. Votes: 0

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start. Votes: 0

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song. Votes: 0

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span. Votes: 0

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years. Votes: 0

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.' (Sunshine) Votes: 0

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span. Votes: 0

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. Votes: 0

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise. Votes: 0

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. Votes: 0

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What businesses really need is to build connections that last, connections that transcend a single product or marketing campaign, connections that span an extended period. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase. Votes: 0

Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hasn't it dawned on your twilight mind,even in the seconds span of a falling star, that you might be missing something more than your sleep? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A woman keeps her kitchen like her heart: Well stocked and labelled and shelved, with lots of air and light, spick and span and filled with love Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! Votes: 0

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Votes: 0

In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky. Votes: 0

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities. Votes: 0

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years. Votes: 0

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going. Votes: 0

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean. Votes: 0

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split. Votes: 0

Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. Votes: 0

Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless. Votes: 0

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis. Votes: 0

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. Votes: 0

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death. Votes: 0

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. Votes: 0

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete. Votes: 0

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time. Votes: 0

...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark.""That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans.""He did have great clothes.""Proving that stereotypes can span centuries. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often. Votes: 0

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years. Votes: 0

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? Votes: 0

It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years. Votes: 0

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. Votes: 0

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span. Votes: 0

Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth. Votes: 0

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it. Votes: 0

When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent. Votes: 0

We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands and foster an even stronger network for nuclear abolition and peace. Votes: 0

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. Votes: 0

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries. Votes: 0

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have. Votes: 0

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span. Votes: 0

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today. Votes: 0

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. Votes: 0

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived. Votes: 0

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that. Votes: 0

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived Votes: 0

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it. Votes: 0

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact. Votes: 0

Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. Votes: 0

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. Votes: 0

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will. Votes: 0

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience. Votes: 0

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth. Votes: 0

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. Votes: 0

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church. Votes: 0

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'. Votes: 0

If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters. Votes: 0