Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Lynne

I can't stand too long of a record.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

L. Ron Hubbard

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

Leonard Lance

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

Lemmy Kilmister

Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

Lemmy Kilmister

You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them.

Lawrence Block

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

Lawrence Durrell

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Laura Riding

Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.

Neil Simon

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

Viktor E. Frankl

Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

Vannevar Bush

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Vanessa Paradis

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

Val Guest

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

Val Kilmer

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

Vaclav Havel

Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Uwe Reinhardt

The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.

Usain Bolt

As long as I'm in good shape, you'll always see me smiling.

Susie Orbach

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Sutton Foster

I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.

Sutton Foster

I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

Susan Vreeland

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

Suzanne Collins

And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t do that,” I say. “What? Come up or stay under?” he says. “Either. Neither. Whatever

Suzanne Collins

My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

Suzanne Collins

Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.

Suzanne Collins

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

Suzanne Collins

They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!

Suzanne Collins

They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

Sophocles

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Stephen Levine

It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!

Stephen Leacock

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

Stephen King

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

Stephen King

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.