Long Quotes

• I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Political
  • Change
  • New

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• I look back at pictures of myself in high school, and I was a cheerleader, and I had hair just as thick if not thicker and long - down to my hips.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • School
  • High
  • Hair

• Lipstick is the easiest way to dress up without doing a lot, but it's hard to maintain, so I always opt for nudes if I'm going out for a long time.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lipstick

• A strong sense of purpose drives businesses to take the long view and invest for growth.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Strong
  • Purpose
  • Growth

• Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way.

  

  Keith Stanfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Song

• The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bed

• I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

  

  Connie Stevens
  • Time
  • Children
  • Decision

• I have a house on the lake, and I must say, sitting on the dock and taking long morning swims or naked swims under the stars, that just brings me back almost immediately.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • House
  • Morning
  • Lake

• I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

  

  Lord Mountbatten
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Up
  • Growth
  • Short

• The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

  

  Charles Tennyson Turner
  • Dream
  • Survive
  • Bee

• THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Long
  • Country
  • Snow

• I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • People
  • Job
  • Past

• If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Long

• Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views that they like, or do voters choose policy positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Science
  • Political
  • Question

• Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

  

  John Darnielle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Long
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I had a hundred things I wanted to be, but when I was 13, I wanted to be an inventor. I wanted to improve the blow-dryer because it takes so long to blow-dry your hair, and it's just a waste of time. I wanted to invent the therm-alarm, which would have you throw your sheets off in the night when you got too hot.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Time
  • Night
  • Hair

• People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Live
  • Matter

• I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Think
  • Food
  • Rap

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