Long Quotes

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

There are no long-term lessons - ever.

Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I'm in an airport or had broccoli for dinner?

It's just one more win. I don't give a [bleep] how we do it, as long as we get it done. Did I say [bleep]? I'm sorry.

Fish are complex beings who choose mates, use words to communicate, build nests, cooperate with one another to find food, have long-term memories, and use tools.

I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

I can't stand too long of a record.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.

You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)

So long as you’re not a snap, you’re safe. (Nykyrian) Snap…Syn used that term. (Kiara) Single. Naïve. Amateur. Person. (Nykyrian)

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

So, Magellan, where are we going? (Danger) Away. I’m open to any location, so long as it doesn’t involve returning to your house while Wart-Head is there.

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

Her new powers surging, she went to have a long overdue Come-to-Jesus talk with the goddess. (Tory)

What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.