Long Quotes

• As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Long

• One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • History
  • Rock

• I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Time
  • Women
  • Trust

• My goal is to try to weaponize the American people, try to weaponize the conservative movement, try to weaponize the underground conservative Hollywood movement, to weaponize as many people in the center-right country to try to rectify a generation-plus long problem that has been absolute media bias, absolute media used by the Democratic Party as a tool to defeat conservatives.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

  

  Bernadette Devlin
  • People
  • Long

• I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love a show. I love an artist that can do all of it.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Long
  • Live

• I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.

  

  Blac Chyna
  • Long
  • Relationship

• The power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.

  

  Antony C. Sutton
  • Trying
  • Government
  • Interest

• I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Long
  • Start

• I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'

  

  Dominic Sherwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Small

• It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • Future
  • Reality

• The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Time
  • History
  • Poetry

• In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

  

  Frank Knight
  • Long

• I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hug

• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Interested
  • Felt

• I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Work
  • Long

• Humor is always important. There are people who help us deal with difficulty or hardship; from the concentration camps to the court jester, there was a need for humor. As long as these kinds of things exist, with repressive regimes, you need it to deal with the weight of daily life.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

  

  LeBron James
  • May
  • Friends
  • Mom

• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Honesty

• My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Live
  • Wife
  • Childhood

• Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

  

  David Lee
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer
  • Gospel
  • Pace

• Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Art

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