Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Mapplethorpe

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

Robert Farrar Capon

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

Wesley Clark

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

Walt Disney

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things

Vissarion Belinsky

It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring...

Vinton Cerf

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Walt Whitman

Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Walt Whitman

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

Saul Alinsky

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

Saul Alinsky

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Tina St. John

I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now." - Rio

Tina Turner

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

Tina Fey

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

Sam Harris

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Sam Harris

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Ronald Isley

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

Ronald Knox

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

Ronald Reagan

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

Ronald Reagan

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

Roger Federer

When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.

Ron Paul

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Sam Neill

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

Sally Field

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

Saadi

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

Rumi

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

Roy Haynes

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

Roy Blunt

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

Roy Blount, Jr.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

Rosa Parks

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Rosa Parks

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Ron Rash

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.