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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. -- Mary Astell
Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span. -- Noam Chomsky
I grew up addicted to 'Star Trek' and 'Mission: Impossible.' Now I switch between 'South Park' and 'C-Span.' -- Lawrence Blume
Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. -- Michael Moore
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. -- William Devane
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. -- Robert Morse
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. -- Bruce Baum
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. -- Rafael Vinoly
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. -- Rafael Vinoly
If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. -- Lucy Larcom
My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac. -- Selena Gomez
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. -- Tom Shales
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. -- Cynthia Kenyon
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. -- Robert Fripp
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. -- Mike Huckabee
It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person. -- Edward Furlong
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. -- Robert Smithson
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. -- Michio Kaku
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. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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. -- Olly Murs
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. -- Deepak Chopra
'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. -- Michael Franti
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. -- Emma Watson
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. -- Luther Burbank
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. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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. -- Steve Harvey
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. -- Julian Castro
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. -- Wiz Khalifa
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. -- Michael Kors
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. -- Ben Barnes
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. -- Paul Watson
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. -- Conor Oberst
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? -- J. Cole
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? -- Alan Alda
I have a short attention span. -- Tony Scott
My attention span is very short. -- will.i.am
I span the entire geek spectrum. -- Joe Abercrombie
Every problem has a limited life span. -- Robert H. Schuller
moments bleed together, no span to time -- Kami Garcia
Music has no limits of a life-span. -- Nadine Gordimer
I've always had a bad attention span. -- Charlie Brooker
There are babies a span long in hell. -- John Calvin
I've got the attention span of a child. -- Ricky Gervais
He has the attention span of a hummingbird. -- Christopher Moore
His attention span was not long, shall we say? -- Lauren Bacall
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. -- Robert Redford
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A good life is not measured by any biblical span. -- Ernest Hemingway
If u were Pinocchio, ur nose wld span the state. -- J. Lynn
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast. -- Carrie Underwood
Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span. -- William Browne
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. -- Steven Spielberg
People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar. -- Rod Serling
Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. -- John Dryden
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. -- Steven Spielberg
I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet. -- Nick Rhodes
Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. -- Richard Louv
The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes. -- Horace
There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. -- John Mayer
...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span. -- James Patterson
Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. -- Stewart Brand
When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do. -- George Martin
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long... -- Herb Caen
I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things. -- Darynda Jones
The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span. -- Francis Bacon
I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be. -- Donald Trump
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. -- Eckhart Tolle
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. -- Michael Morpurgo
I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project. -- Reba McEntire
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. -- Karl Kraus
For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills. -- Mari Evans
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. -- H. L. Mencken
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. -- Herbert Hoover
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. -- Charlie Brooker
All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN -- Chuck Grassley
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? -- Horace
She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. -- Ella Fitzgerald
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. -- Maira Kalman
His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. -- E. B. White
I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. -- Powers Boothe
I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. -- Powers Boothe
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time. -- Jamie Dornan
There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span. -- Henry David Thoreau
My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year. -- Ashwin Sanghi
You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span. -- J Dilla
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. -- Mark Kozelek
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. -- Alfonso Cuaron
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. -- Charles Portis
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. -- Octavia Butler
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. -- Charlie Munger
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. -- Doug Liman
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. -- Jeff Daniels
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man. -- Francois Rabelais
I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. -- Hilda Doolittle
I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span. -- Joe Swanberg
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. -- Brian Ferneyhough
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see. -- Barbara Fredrickson
I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well. -- Jai Courtney
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long. -- Herodotus
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. -- David Crosby
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. -- Claire McCaskill
The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. -- Gore Vidal
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. -- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span. -- Jack London
The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants. -- C. Walton Lillehei
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. -- Henry David Thoreau
Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN. -- Emile Hirsch
We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span. -- Nancy Jo Sales
A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie -- R. A. Salvatore
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. -- Betty Friedan
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! -- Winston Churchill
I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things. -- Steve-O
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. -- Meg Rosoff
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them. -- Meg Rosoff
I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy. -- David Brooks

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