Long Quotes
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Falsehoods which we spurn to-dayWere the truths of long ago.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Saul Bellow
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In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.
William Morris
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
George Eliot
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I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.
Celia Imrie
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We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
Casey Kasem
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Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.
Sarah MacLean
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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
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Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.
Nicholas Lore
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And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
Lois McMaster
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If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...
Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
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And they are gone: ay, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.
John Keats
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
Amby Burfoot
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If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.
Kim Cattrall
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As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Sidney Poitier
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
Willa Cather
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You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
Hilary Mantel
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The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
Asif Kapadia
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As long as it's not me, I'll be cool.
Rick Perry
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
Celia Green
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Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
William Butler Yeats