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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.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

Quotes by Harriet Walter

As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

Quotes by Harriet Walter

I don't know how long anything is going to last, so I have to make sure I have something to do tomorrow.

Quotes by Harry Anderson

If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it...

Quotes by Harry Belafonte

A week is a long time in politics.

Quotes by Harold Wilson

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Quotes by Harold MacMillan

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Quotes by Harold MacMillan

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Quotes by Harold Pinter

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

Quotes by Harold Ramis

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a...

Quotes by Harold Ramis

You do what I did to my body, for as long as I did, and it's bound to take its toll.

Quotes by Harley Race

I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide, and that is what I did for a long time.

Quotes by Harley Race

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live:...

Quotes by Harold Brodkey

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Quotes by Harold Brodkey

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

Quotes by Harold Brodkey

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Quotes by Harold E. Varmus

I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.

Quotes by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I...

Quotes by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

Quotes by Hansika Motwani

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of statements does this "Long" page collect?
The page gathers quotes using "long" in different senses - long stretches of time, a long production process, and being part of a "long line of royalty." For more upbeat lines in a similar vein, see Good quotes.
Is there a quote here with a dramatic, big-picture claim?
Yes: "I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings" is a striking, big-picture statement about humanity. For more quotes centered on extended time, see Long Time.
Does this page touch on family lineage?
Yes: "I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty" reflects on identity tied to ancestry and family history.
Is there anything here about the entertainment industry?
One quote describes how making a TV show is "such a long process," moving from commissioned scripts through a network before it airs. If you enjoy reflections tied to life's bigger picture, Life quotes is a related page.
Is there poetic content here too, or only quotes?
This page is quotes-focused, but if you'd like more poetic Hindi-style verses built around the same word, the Shayari section is worth a look.

You can also browse our Good quotes for shorter, upbeat lines, or the Hindi-language Shayari collection for a poetic take.