Long Quotes

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

I had a girlfriend when I was about 13 but we didn't stay together for very long and I've not really been out with many people since. I've still never had a serious girlfriend but I would happily go out with someone if the right girl came along.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

I let things roll right off me. I don't stay mad long.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.