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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.

Traverse City sits halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, and our summer days are long. The light seems to take forever to vanish from the sky, and when it does, it goes out like someone folding a white...

Quotes by Doug Stanton

Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

Quotes by Douglas Alexander

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

Quotes by Dorothy Atkinson

Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.

Quotes by Dorothy Bush Koch

No one knows exactly when I got the nickname Doro, but I've been called that as long as anyone can remember.

Quotes by Dorothy Bush Koch

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Quotes by Dorothy Day

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Quotes by Dorothy Fields

It's not about just how to maximize your finances but make sure it lasts a long time.

Quotes by Donte DiVincenzo

I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

Quotes by Doreen Cronin

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

Quotes by Doris Lilly

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Quotes by Dorothea Brande

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things...

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what...

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.

Quotes by Donna Strickland

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

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.