Long Quotes

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end

I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

I've been single for so long that I'm scared of being in a relationship.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting.