Long Quotes

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

Аs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.

I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.

I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.

I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.

When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment.

To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.

I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.

The drinking bone is connected to the party bone, the party bone is connected to the staying out all night long.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

You left me for a dream you had to follow, but I thought goodbye wouldn't last that long.