Quotes about long
long may events
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. Upton Sinclair
long silence solitude
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude. Ursula K. Le Guin
long
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
long parent age
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.
long feelings sometimes
I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. Robert James Waller
long people world
Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live. Robyn
long secret happy-relationship
What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot. Roberto Mancini
long mind wish
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners Robertson Davies
long population looks
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. Robert Sternberg
long locks delay
Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have many stays,Long demurs breed new delays. Robert Southwell
long waiting want
If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. Robert Penn Warren
long ass hanging-out
My back is too long or something because my ass is constantly hanging out. Robert Pattinson
long fame enough
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. Robert Mapplethorpe
long may
The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all. Robert Louis Stevenson
long devil roaring
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
long unnecessary stew
Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are. Robert Farrar Capon
long information administration
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. Wesley Clark
long forever way
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things Walt Disney
long creative depth
It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring... Vissarion Belinsky
long growth doe
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. Vinton Cerf
long acres earth
Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Walt Whitman
long forget ecstasy
The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
long democracy would-be
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions. Saul Alinsky
long tactics drag
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
long tea way
As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me. Sarah Ferguson
long labels pages
All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. Sarah Dessen
long hopeful comfort
And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.
long trying different
Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.
long firsts said
It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.
long female roles
There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time. Sandra Bullock
long film crisis
My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.
long accomplish conform
I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.
long band digging
I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me! Ronnie Wood