Long Quotes

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.

When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.

For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything.

If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

Over the long run, many of Perry's stances boil down to following the money.

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

Energy is connected to physical fitness. One of the reasons I stayed at the top so long is that I was tremendously fit. At 36, I was fitter than most opponents ten years younger.

I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

Two full time-outs. I could eat lunch with that long.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

The Fed wants to raise rates because they've been yelling and screaming about it. They've been crying wolf for so long that their credibility is shot, and I think they feel they need to.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, "I'm not that stupid." Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.