One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.

Amanda Foreman

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

A. A. Gill

In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

Abigail Washburn

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

Adrian Belew

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Aeschylus

It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature.

Aimee Garcia

I always give weightage to performance more than the length of my character. That has always been my criteria for signing a film.

Aishwarya Rajesh

A film like 'Shirdi Sai' caters to the family audiences, while 'Rajanna' evokes patriotic sense in viewers. 'Damarukam,' on the other hand, is a full-length commercial film made for the masses.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

Alberto Manguel

For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.

Alessandro Michele

Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

Alex Berenson

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

Alex Tizon

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Alexander Graham Bell

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.

Alfred Hershey

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

Alfred Kastler

Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.

Alison Jackson

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

Allan McNish

I would like to think I am well aware of what the Lions are about and what they represent, but out of respect for your body and the players who are putting up their hands to be selected, you keep it at arm's length.

Alun Wyn Jones