Long Quotes

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire.

I think what you can see is this is a president of action. I mean Donald Trump is not one that's going to sit there and talk for too long. If he thinks someone is wrong, he's going to deal with it.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.

Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.

I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term significance.

One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological.

Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.

Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

"It doesn't matter how long it takes." She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. "It's how long it lasts."

In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.

War will exist as long as there's a food chain.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

Love is short, but forgetting is long.

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

The internet has created a transnational audience. If you publish something in the New York Times, it's read all over the world. Who knows how big this audience is or how long it will last.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.