Long Quotes

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

Americans do not like long wars with indecisive outcomes.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think Art Bell thought there was a spot to be filled. He was doing exactly the same thing.

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm.

Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.

After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think.