Long Quotes

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.