Long Quotes

• I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Hard Work

• Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Long

• If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go, but for some reason, in part because of adequate safety nets, people don't want to leave.

  

  Kevin Hassett
  • People
  • Long
  • Safety

• If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Look

• I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.

  

  Alan Lightman
  • Time
  • World
  • Writing

• For actors coming out of long-running soaps, it's really important to have a little break from the screen and look for roles that are removed from the ones they have played.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Important
  • Long
  • Running

• Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Long
  • Attention

• In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Long
  • Real

• I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • May
  • Law
  • Encouraging

• Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Atheism
  • Sixty

• Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.

  

  Peter Singer
  • Long

• You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

  

  Bjorn Borg
  • Game
  • Player
  • Opinion

• It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant poem - I was trying to write from the point of view of someone who had been seduced by the logic of his punishers and who, in a kind of awful way, could reproduce the very logic that had put him in this predicament in the first place. And maybe, in some kind of minor way, that's something I feel about myself, or maybe about all selves, that they fall in love with the thing that oppresses them.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Fall

• According to government ethics rules and FOMC rules, it is permissible for a retired governor to speak in public about the economy, so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • She
  • Economy
  • Rules

• The thing is, the Superman comics have been around a long time, and so have the movies. They've done a lot of Superman movies, as they have with Batman.

  

  Martin Campbell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Batman

• Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Hope

• I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Regret

• I adore going to a very, very fancy restaurant - as long as the spirit is genuine, like it's their pleasure to welcome you.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Long

• It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

  

  Sheena Easton
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Weight

• Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.

  

  Bobby Cox
  • Good
  • Game
  • Alone

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