Long Quotes

• I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Time
  • Problem

• Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

  

  Joyce DeWitt
  • Long
  • Want
  • Star

• As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Running

• How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

  

  Bernard Joseph Saurin
  • Long
  • Night
  • Pain

• I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Long
  • Live

• I've been doing dramas for a long time.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Time
  • Long

• The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People
  • Remember
  • High

• For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.

  

  R. R. Reno
  • Time
  • Good
  • Culture

• Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

  

  Jean Harlow
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Husband

• It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Risk

• Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Lying

• Private sector has no issue in coming into infrastructure sector. They know very well that infrastructure is one area that can give you very steady long-term returns.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Long

• You know, a lot of people think that just 'cause you work out, lift weights, eat right, and do what people tell you to do that you'll live a long live, maybe you will. But, why do people measure life by the years instead about how good the years were.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet. "Beautiful legs, then, is the secret of being a mistriss," concluded Francie. She looked down at her own long thin legs. "I'll never make it, I guess." Sighing , she resigned herself to a sinless life.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • She
  • High

• Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

  

  Louise Fletcher
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most - it can be your arms, your chest, your legs - and emphasize that.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Long
  • Nice

• My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

  

  John Bradley-West
  • Time
  • School
  • Comedy

• Most days, we don't get to the 'SNL' studio until noon. On Monday, we pitch the host, and that's our shortest, lightest day. Tuesday is our longest day - some people don't leave until Wednesday night. It's just a long, long day.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • People
  • Night
  • Monday

• Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • Long

• After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Men
  • Writing

• A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.

  

  Lauren Potter
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

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