Long Quotes
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For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
John Bercow -
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
George Washington
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They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.
C. S. Lewis -
Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
Jonathan Dimbleby -
You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.
Bill Burr -
When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.
Jimmy Buffett -
A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved
Vincent Van Gogh -
You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
Kim Cattrall
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Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Jim Sensenbrenner -
I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.
Alicia Keys -
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James Joyce -
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
Jeff Goodell -
Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties.
Douglas Coupland -
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.
John Donne
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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.
William Butler Yeats -
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
Philip Pullman -
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.
George R. Stewart -
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
Asif Kapadia -
It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long superhero fan, and he is the character that kicked off the entire genre.
Gene Luen Yang -
I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.
James Bay
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India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover.
Elizabeth Flock -
Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.
John Hawkes -
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway