Long Quotes

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

I'm not the sort of bloke who spends a long time in the bathroom. I've never used a face cream in my life and I don't like it when I go on TV and they offer me make-up. I tell 'em, 'No thanks.'

I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

I do think in the present state of both the Church and society we have a long way to go toward accepting and loving others that look or act differently than we do.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.

Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.

I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. "Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself. I set off, off to kill the man I loved.

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

I really consider myself very fortunate over the years to have the experiences that I had and to be able to come out on top tonight means the world. It's been a long road and it's a lot of hard.

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change.

I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.