Long Quotes

• For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Character

• It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Good
  • Long

• As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

  

  Lionel Ferbos
  • Long

• We have nothing to crow about, our home record has been atrocious, we've got a long ways to go before we feel we're on top.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Home
  • Record
  • Ways

• If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Believe
  • Long

• I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Character

• 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

• People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• Imagine a music business where all the music press talked about, all day long, was cover bands of old rock and pop groups. Beatles cover bands, Rolling Stones cover bands, The Who cover bands, Led Zeppelin cover bands. Cover bands, cover bands, everywhere you go.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Music
  • Business
  • Rock

• Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • People
  • Live
  • Book

• I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Painting

• The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • American
  • Help
  • Financial

• Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!

  

  Constance Marie
  • Mom
  • Universe
  • Waiting

• You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Long
  • Son

• I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Age
  • Cold
  • Missing

• For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Time
  • Long

• 'Don't worry. I've been in showbusiness for a long time now - I know how to handle bastards'

  

  Eoin Colfer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Worry

• Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Time
  • War
  • Fighting

• Playing 82 games is a haul, and with eight or nine exhibition games, it's a long process. You've got to take care of your body and make sure you're getting your work in and staying healthy throughout the whole season.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Work
  • Long

• Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb...Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Energy
  • Fall
  • Star

• I was playing a lot of bigger, sort-of-comedic characters in slightly heightened realities, and it had been so fun and fulfilling for a long time. But it got to a point where I just felt like I didn't have that in me anymore.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fun

• My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?

  

  John Gay
  • Long
  • Together
  • Mother

• There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Kind
  • Eye
  • Natural

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