Long Quotes

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'

I've been a long-distance father.

I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

I think Hanson is gonna be around for a long time. I think that they're three great, talented young men.

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.

I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.

It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.