Long Quotes

• People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Hate
  • Laughter

• 'How long have we been friends, Dan?''I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• We saw that radiation cannot suitably be pictured as particles when it is traveling through space. There is a corresponding property for electrons; these should not be pictured as waves so long as they are traveling through empty space.

  

  James Jeans
  • Long
  • Space
  • Waves

• He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • People
  • Up
  • Grandparents

• I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

  

  Adrianne Palicki
  • Long
  • Done
  • Hair

• But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.

  

  John Breaux
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• One of many strengths that I often see in successful women on Wall Street is a responsible balance between risk taking and risk mitigation - the ability to assess situations smartly and make the right medium-to-long-term decisions without being lured into reckless, short-term profit-taking.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Women
  • Risk
  • Balance

• If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Long
  • History

• I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

  

  Antje Traue
  • Up
  • Long

• I think that many central banks and financial authorities understand that any long term attempt to compete through an artificial depreciation of their currency will not be very effective in the long term.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Long
  • Financial

• Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Time
  • Long
  • Wise

• I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

  

  John Carpenter
  • Time
  • Long

• I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Action

• My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Life
  • Long

• Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • Democracy
  • Feels
  • Prove

• Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Long
  • Done

• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Moments
  • Dying

• I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

  

  John Adams
  • Long
  • Democracy

• I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Childhood

• The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

  

  Al Lewis
  • Long
  • Strong

• This is the short and the long of it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memorable
  • Merry
  • Windsor

• Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Long

• I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hope
  • Fighting
  • Courage

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