#length

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

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

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind

Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice! ↗

— Tony Brown

#academic #any #being #coach #fact

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#beauty #been #before #came #i

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

#clear #crystals #formed #inches #length

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#domestic #focus #great #home #house

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#charleston #first #first thing #hospital #i

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#because #briefly #chiefly #far #few

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#continue #exposure #fifteen #fifteen minutes #first

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#character #comes #course #differences #each