Long Quotes

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

They live too long who happiness outlive.

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.

But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.” Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.

I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.

There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

...Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

Love me litle, love me long.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

There may be arrangements to have me retired but I don't know. Things happen that I enjoy doing, and as long as I enjoy doing them I'll go about doing them, I guess.

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.