“Our attention span is simply shorter. Our willingness to put up with a difficult military situation and losses isn't what it used to be.”
Charles Franklin
“I've never been in a situation where you lose the No. 1 and No. 2 quarterbacks in a span of seven plays.”
Herman Edwards
“Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans”
Candice Bergen
“It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.”
Yeardley Smith
“ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute”
Ambrose Bierce
“The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked along.”
Franz Kafka
“The back-to-back hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region within a three-week time span hit the country in the most vulnerable spot -- our carbon fuel supply.”
Daniel Meckstroth