Long Quotes

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.