Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Beck

As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

Eric Church

Stay young and wild as long as you can

Gerry Schwartz

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Irving Penn

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

C. S. Lewis

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

Candace Bushnell

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

Jessica Chastain

It takes me a LONG time to make a big purchase.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

Graham Greene

As long as nothing happens anything is possible...

Harriet Lerner

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

Guy de Maupassant

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Jeanne Moreau

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

Jack Paar

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

J. R. R. Tolkien

His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.

J. K. Rowling

Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.

George Herbert

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

Jerry Bridges

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Robert Duvall

If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long.

Roger Ascham

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Robinson Jeffers

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Warren Buffett

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

Van Morrison

The idea [of A Period of Transition albom] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.

Upton Sinclair

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

Robert Louis Stevenson

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

William Faulkner

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Ronald Reagan

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.