Long Time Quotes

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.

We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.

Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

There was a long time where I was an "artist" in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.

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.

The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.