Long Quotes

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

Life is too short for a long story.

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.