Long Quotes

Memories are so two-faced. One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long, it was hard to follow, and you could only enjoy it if you were really, really, *really* stoned.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?” “No. A statement of fact.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

I want to ski as long as I can.

Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.

TV is just a huge tablet. It’s just a platform to consume long-form video.

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?