#length

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#became #been #england #even #forging

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#israel #know #length #less #little

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#general #more #objects #processes #range

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#cutting room #discover #length #movie #optimal

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#astronomical #astronomy #being #brightness #depending

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be. ↗

— Jay Roach

#cut #director #directors #far #i

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ↗

— Robert Frost

#height #lacks #length #makes #up

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. ↗

— Florence King

#avoid #between #counselors #couples #gone