Long Quotes

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology I myself own an iPhone.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other.

Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't take long for the Colts to convert the city and state of Indiana into football evangelists.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.

Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

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.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Going through a long legal battle is not what you sign up for as a fighter.

We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D!

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!