Long Quotes

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

Long jesting was never good.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

I want to enjoy myself in this planet for as long as I can for the people I care about.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

A long summer always meant a long winter to come.

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.

Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.

Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?