Long Quotes

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

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.

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.