Long Quotes

What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

Death's long anabasis.

And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.

What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

"No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

And as long as I'm passionate about the sport, I'm able to do that and I'm happy, then I would love to do another Olympics. I'm just going to see how I'm feeling.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I'm not all you need, and I don't even want to be. I just want to love you, for the rest of my life, and as long as you let me do that, we'll be okay.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

My coach told me I had to expect, you know, some long rallies and stuff. So, you know, I was ready for this.

The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.

A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

You guys should know we do [ cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism] because you watch CNN all day long.

This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

I think [Anderson Cooper ] and me both enjoy working, and don't consider it "work," so as long as I'm having fun I will continue at this pace.

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.