Long Quotes

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!

It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I truly love being an actor. I love it with all my heart and soul, and I hope that I get to do it for a very long time.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.

It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.

Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.