Long Quotes

• When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

  

  Peter Senge
  • Long
  • Power

• 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

• The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • May
  • America

• The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.(Oct, 1994 interview).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Time
  • Career
  • Action

• Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real.

  

  J. Cole
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Relationship

• I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.

  

  Pete Coors
  • Time
  • Drinking
  • Abuse

• I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Long
  • Art
  • Through

• I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Night
  • Day

• I got two older brothers and two younger sisters, and we grew up in the country, and we were a little feral. So as long as the car didn't end up in the rhubarb and you didn't get caught for doing whatever you were doing, you were fine.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Up
  • Country
  • Car

• I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Charity

• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Up
  • Great
  • Energy

• Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.

  

  Jacob Rothschild
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Driving

• The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Change
  • Government
  • Cricket

• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Investment
  • Wealthy
  • Dictates

• Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Long
  • Years
  • Ice

• You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Hair
  • Appearance
  • Psychological

• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  

  Elmer Davis
  • Home
  • Free
  • Brave

• Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Life
  • Long

• I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Long
  • Career

• Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Life
  • Long
  • She

• If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Long
  • Remember

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