Long Quotes

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strewberries melts On the vine.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.