Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Fountain

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Ben Fountain

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

Barry Eichengreen

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

Carl Sandburg

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Carl Sandburg

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

Carey Lowell

There is something about video marketing that helps it stay apart from the other online marketing tactics. When done correctly, all you need is one video marketing campaign to build up highly targeted traffic for a really long time.

Carey Lowell

Out of gas... I haven't heard that one in a long time.

C. S. Lewis

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

C. S. Lewis

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

Buster Keaton

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

Burt Reynolds

If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.

Burt Reynolds

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style...like me.

Bryant H. McGill

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

Celia Imrie

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,

Carson McCullers

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Alan Lightman

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

Al Yankovic

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

Alain de Botton

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

Alain de Botton

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Me and him are always in touch -- always in touch. This is the longest I have ever been without in touch with my son.

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

Eddie Vedder

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

Ed O'Brien

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

Elizabeth Bowen

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How long will the heathens rage?

Eliot Spitzer

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

Eleanor Smeal

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

Dirk Benedict

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Dave Morin

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.