Long Quotes

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.