Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Oscar Wilde

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

Madonna Ciccone

I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it.

Lucretia Mott

Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

Louis Jourdan

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Louis Leakey

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Louis L'Amour

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Louis L'Amour

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

Lorrie Moore

If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

Lorrie Moore

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

Lizzy Caplan

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

Liz Phair

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

Liz Phair

I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

Margaret Mahy

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

Michael Jackson

We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

Michael Crichton

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Mia Hamm

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

Melissa Manchester

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

Mary Ritter Beard

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Mary Renault

Longing performs all things

Mary Roach

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

Mary Burke

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

Mark McKinnon

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Marilyn Monroe

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

Nikki Sixx

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.

Nikki Giovanni

All systems require myths for their longevity.

Nico Tortorella

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

Nicki Minaj

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

Nick Nolte

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.