Top 100 A Long Time Ago Quotes
#1. Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
Cassandra Clare
#3. I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
Guy De Maupassant
#4. You've got this whole knight-in-shining-armor vibe going on."
I shake my head. "My armor was tarnished a long time ago, Brent."
"A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight.
Emma Chase
#5. She was gravity. She was the light in the darkest of my days, and her smile ignited a flame inside of me that had gone out a long time ago.
Teresa Mummert
#6. Somebody said a long time ago that if the Devil can't make you sin, he will make you busy, because either way your soul will shrivel.
John Ortberg
#7. If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,
Yayoi Kusama
#8. But a long time ago I made me a rule: I let people do what they want to do.
Louis L'Amour
#9. Just once - and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This
George Lucas
#10. A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.
Ron Howard
#11. She glanced up from his lips to those dark eyes that smoldered with his fire. She remembered now what they had looked like as she'd seen him before Morgen had entered his world. "Your eyes used to be blue."
"That was a long time ago."
-Seren to Kerrigan
Kinley MacGregor
#12. A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.
Vera Nazarian
#14. What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.
Pinetop Perkins
#15. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.
Robyn Schneider
#16. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
Bette Midler
#17. He wondered if it had occurred to Tamara to ask him to dance, but he knew she would always choose Aaron first. He'd accepted it a long time ago. He didn't even really mind.
Cassandra Clare
#18. I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
Bob Ainsworth
#19. I recalled something I'd read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn't be as a demon but as an ordinary-looking guy with a convincing message of peace.
Steven Ramirez
#20. You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn't the kind you were thinking of." He laughed to himself. "Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.
Charles Martin
#21. I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
Laura Wade
#22. I swapped my heart for a bargaining chip a long time ago. And here I am turning it over and over again in my hand, not sure what to trade it in for.
Shirley Marr
#23. Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
Mike McCarthy
#24. I'm on a quest, I think," he said, not having realised this before. "Or something like one."
"Those went out of fashion a long time ago.
Max Gladstone
#25. I left you a long time ago," I whispered, reaching up to place a hand over my breaking heart. "I just didn't realise it.
Madeline Sheehan
#26. Tim considered the school. "Maybe I want to walk down the hallway with you, hand in hand, like I should have done a long time ago." Ben's eyes softened. "You don't have to do this." "I want to.
Jay Bell
#27. You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.
Charles Manson
#28. I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.
Anders Petersen
#29. Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.
Nick Mancuso
#30. This is love, Jacqs. Being okay getting the shit end of the universe because you have one person who makes you happy anyway... That's love."
"If that's the definition, I could have said I loved you a long time ago
Lyn Gala
#31. I will always protect you, Dylan. We might not be married yet, but I said my vows to you a long time ago.
J. Daniels
#32. And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
David Nicholls
#33. A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#34. Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." she waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth be told, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago." speaking meow? "I'm guessing calling you pretty kitty is out.
Gena Showalter
#35. My chops were not as fast ... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes
Les Paul
#36. I'd stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It's our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can't reproduce - it
Sergei Lukyanenko
#37. A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.
MC Hammer
#38. As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
Kevin McCloud
#39. You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.
James Balog
#40. We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!
Taylor Mali
#41. A long time ago, I heard a piece of advice that went something like "write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't." And that's what I do...
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
Jody Watley
#43. I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.
Eric Avery
#44. I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.
Susan Orlean
#45. I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.
Ronny Cox
#46. My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
Bryant Gumbel
#47. Do I wish you would've left him a long time ago? Hell yeah. But there's something to be said for someone brave enough to take on that kind of darkness alone.
Steph Campbell
#48. For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
Dennis Rodman
#49. You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago
Dana Carvey
#50. I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
Lee Child
#51. Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
Eileen Myles
#52. I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
Jim Leyland
#53. I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.
Michael Moschen
#54. Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#55. The morning light played up his hazel eyes and for a moment I was caught in his allure. The dark brows, the dark hair, the tan skin. A weaker woman would have thrown herself at him a long time ago.
R.S. Grey
#56. Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.
John Green
#57. I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
Carine Roitfeld
#58. I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
Dennis Farina
#59. I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.
Connie Stevens
#60. I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.
Chris Henchy
#61. It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.
Dan Chaon
#62. My perspective broke a long time ago." Damon
"Don't make any repairs. You're better off without it." Jall
Eleni Papanou
#63. In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.
George Allen
#64. Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.
Kirk Cameron
#65. I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#66. I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.
Bobby Bowden
#67. We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.
Henry Martin
#68. If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.
Richard Brautigan
#69. In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
John Gurdon
#70. I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy.
Robert Crais
#71. Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
Janice Macleod
#72. I learned a long time ago writing does soothe the soul. Our deepest feelings grasp our hands and as fast as you think of it your utmost feelings is in plain view. "A wisp of a thought brought to life.
Darlene Cruz
#73. I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
Samuel Larsen
#74. I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
Wole Soyinka
#75. We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.
David Levithan
#76. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett
Lora M. Cecere
#77. Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
Lucinda Williams
#78. I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.
Gennifer Flowers
#79. When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.
Eckhart Tolle
#81. I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn't mean it's not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. Count Olaf: You should have given up a long time ago, orphans. I triumphed the moment you lost your family.
Violet: We didn't lose our family. Only our parents.
Lemony Snicket
#83. Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.
David Feherty
#84. Fern has Ugly Girl Syndrome." Bailey said, out of the blue. "Also known as UGS ... She grew up thinking she was ugly. She doesn't realize that she shed the ugly a long time ago. She's beautiful now. And she's just as pretty on the inside, which is a side benny of UGS.
Amy Harmon
#85. I learned a long time ago that one way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in my mind. What I try to achieve during the season is a relaxed state of concentration. I simply try to cleanse my mind of the pressures that people are trying to heap on me.
Brian Sipe
#86. I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?
Walter Dean Myers
#87. You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#88. I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.
Frederick Lenz
#89. The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
G. Willow Wilson
#90. I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.
Bill Laswell
#91. Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.
Frederick Lenz
#92. It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before it was do as you like, take to the streets.
Michel Martelly
#93. Benghazi happened a long time ago.
Jay Carney
#94. When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.
Amy Nuttall
#95. A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. - [Sara]
Lisa Kleypas
#96. Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.
Demetri Martin
#97. A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
Charles De Lint
#98. I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.
Benny Goodman
#99. If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
Larry Page
#100. I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.
Sharon Shinn
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