Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miley Cyrus

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.

There is a sense of urgency. We'd like to have as much of it in place as possible by opening day, but we're not going to be panicked if it's not. We're in hyper-drive to get it done, but we want to get it done right. If it takes a little longer to get it right, it will be worth it because of the long-term gain.

Charles Bukowski

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

Charles Bukowski

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Benjamin Graham

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.

Benjamin Graham

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

Benjamin Graham

Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

Benjamin Graham

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

Bruce Springsteen

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

Bruce Springsteen

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Brian Tracy

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough;

Brian Tracy

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

Brian Tracy

Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.

Brian K. Vaughan

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

Brian Andreas

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

Brad Meltzer

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Brad Ausmus

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

Jane Green

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

Jane Hirshfield

It's more for me as with going into a forest: if you sit quietly for a long time, the life around you emerges. As the world grows ever more clamorous, my hunger for silence steepens. I unplug the landline.

Jane Goodall

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

Jamie Bell

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

Juvenal

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Antony Starr

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

Frederic Bastiat

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Denis Waitley

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Denis Leary

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

Deborah Norville

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

Deb Caletti

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

Deb Caletti

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants us to become perfect,2 and if we stay on the path of discipleship, one day we will. It’s OK that you’re not quite there yet. Keep working on it, but stop punishing yourself.

Dick Cavett

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

Diana Gabaldon

So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.