Long Quotes

• Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people

  

  Tom Allen
  • People
  • Cold
  • Helping

• I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • People
  • Listening
  • Behavior

• Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.

  

  Charles Goodnight
  • Real
  • Enough
  • Cowboy

• I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Time
  • Long

• There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Long
  • Taken
  • Possession

• The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Break

• Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Long
  • Gay
  • Easy

• I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice is. "What is your thing supposed to sound like?" You know: "What's the thing you do," that everyone can recognizably tell from a long distance is you and then you're supposed to be in search of that marker and you're supposed to find it and you're supposed to live there for the rest of your life. And it seemed to me, from a young age, that was what I was encouraged to do. You find a sound and that's your sound! That's what you do.

  

  David Lang
  • Thinking
  • Distance
  • Composer

• I have been in Los Angeles for a long time, and I have wanted to be a series lead for a long time. It's literally on my bucket list.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Time
  • Long

• Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Filmmaker

• In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India,” with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.

  

  Webster Tarpley
  • Empires
  • Colonialism
  • Empresses

• The Ballon d'Or is one of my objectives, but it will be complicated so long as Ronaldo and Messi are around.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Long

• Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Long
  • Wife

• From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Fulfillment

• To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Moving
  • Accepting
  • Around

• Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

  

  George Will
  • Long
  • Football
  • Injury

• Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

  

  Eric Chaisson
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Myth

• I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

  

  William Bell
  • Night
  • Jazz
  • Islands

• I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Believe
  • Happiness
  • Habit

• Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Change
  • Body
  • Spirit

• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

  

  Joe Biden
  • World
  • Home
  • American

• For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Long
  • Chance
  • Vengeance

• I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Long
  • Sports

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