Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP... people tend to approach it as Americana, which is wild. That’s what leads people to it. But it’s just whatever people want; as long...
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I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
'Ever closer union' is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union's Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the...
I'm not a moderniser. I accept that things like escalators do need an upgrade every now and then, but I think the fundamental principles of Conservatism have a long thread running through them that does not need to be modernised.
For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.
Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.
We're quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as 'crazy,' and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I've long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a...
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
