Long Quotes

She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.

I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.