Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Matt Dillon

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

Matt Bomer

Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

Mark Twain

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

Nicholas Sparks

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

Nicholas Sparks

After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

Nicholas Sparks

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.

John Green

Long week. Long month. Long life.

John Green

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

Patton Oswalt

Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

Patton Oswalt

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

Patti Smith

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

Patti Smith

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

Patti Smith

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

Patti Smith

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

P. J. O'Rourke

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

P. G. Wodehouse

She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.

P. G. Wodehouse

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

Ovid

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

Ovid

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Paul Newman

The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

Paul Feig

I don't like weddings. I never have. I find moments in them I really like, but I always look at them like, "Oh my God, we have to go to a wedding." My problem with weddings is that they are just too long.

Paul Bremer

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

Matt Groening

You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

Marya Hornbacher

I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.

Marya Hornbacher

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

Martha Gellhorn

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

Mark Hall

Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups -- just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account,

Michel de Montaigne

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Michael Novak

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Michael Nesmith

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Markus Zusak

She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.