Long Quotes

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

Never is an awfully long time.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.

There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

I've learned a long time ago, you don't say anything for absolutely certain.

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

I've had a best-practices reputation in this industry for a long time. I don't know anything about those other apps, because in the bar space, there really are none.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.

Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.

But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.