Long Quotes

It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.

A long way of saying I've seen a lot of kind of more systemic and processed changes. Although we still are providing the kind of material you're still seeing out there now.

But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.

It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.

I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign.

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.

We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.