Long Quotes

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run, it will lead to appreciation.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

There's no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

I will shoot on film as long as they make it.

As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

The United States is sending its most powerful drone to Libya. That’s a long trip for Joe Biden.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

John Kerry announced that he and his wife are leaving on a week-long vacation. He's going to take her back to the place where he first proposed to her - at her bank.

The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

She said, "As long as we're with each other--" "We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished.

I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!