Long Quotes

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

I long to get back into theater.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

There's always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

I've been the target of haters for so long, for so many years. Ever since I was a kid and I first started the show.

I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.

We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator.

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.

We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.

The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.

The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.

Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.

No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.