Long Quotes

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

As long as Pete and Joe are there, it's gonna be jumping.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I meet with people all day long.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.