Top 100 Long Long Quotes
#1. As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
Nobuo Uematsu
#2. Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.
Henry Hyde
#3. They haven't been unhappy these last few years, quite the opposite. But it's been a long, long time since she felt that sense of giddy love that effervesces in the pit of your stomach and spectacularly upends the world.
Blake Crouch
#4. Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.
James Aldrich
#5. I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.
Eating and crying.
Crying and eating.
Matt De La Pena
#6. Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.
Dave Barry
#7. If I can meet you someday,
If you are waiting for me,
Then my long, long journey was not so bad after all.
Yuri Kimura
#8. Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.
Neal A. Maxwell
#9. You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless
Deb Caletti
#10. I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
Salma Hayek
#11. A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
Chris Rock
#12. And to hear David talk about it, it's it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with human nature and ended up making it worse.
Veronica Roth
#13. The junkie whine had vanished from his voice now, replaced with a resigned flatness, as if the words were being broadcast from a long, long way away, dead words being sent out on a dead frequency.
Neil Gaiman
#14. figure out if he knew her from somewhere. But he didn't, she was sure, unless it was just in passing at the mall. She would have remembered a man like him. For a long, long time. And then she would have dreamed about him. A lot. Probably without clothes. On either of them.
Elizabeth Bevarly
#15. Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.
Tahir Shah
#16. There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.
Sonny Rollins
#17. And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt.
It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on and on and on trough the generations, even after that person was long long dead.
Chris Beckett
#18. I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.
Josh Lawson
#19. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers.
Haruki Murakami
#20. I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is a long, long story. You move on from it, , but the death will never disappear from view.
Elizabeth McCracken
#22. Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
Irwin Winkler
#23. Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.
Rosie Pugh
#24. Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any case, all the ovens in the world can't incinerate desire.
David Burr Gerrard
#25. Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
#26. But in writing, I feel good - no, not just good, but full. Right, somehow. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in a long, long time, and it's this more than anything that convinces me...
Gayle Forman
#27. The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.
Linda Lavin
#28. We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.
Bruce Springsteen
#29. If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.
Charlie Munger
#30. As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I'd keep the code a secret. As I've known for a long, long time now, hell is going to be totally fucking worth it.
Sarah Royal
#31. Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
Alan Alda
#32. 'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.
Kelli Williams
#33. So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal ...
Ivan Turgenev
#34. Time is a long long long time before the dawn - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Ricky Stahl
#35. I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
Ivan Turgenev
#36. You were the first thing I had asked for, just for me, in a long, long time.
Mary Ann Rivers
#37. I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#38. He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
Charles Dickens
#39. Don't put the material first, for you have to live with yourself a long, long while! Become acquainted with yourself. Know yourself and the relationship to the Creative Forces.
Edgar Cayce
#40. All that I was, but for reflections in a cracked mirror, has been lost for a long, long time.
Greg Bear
#41. I have a soft spot for cashmere - even though that is not a particularly sustainable fabric, I do invest in quality, so it is sustainable in the sense that it is not just throwaway fashion and I keep it for a long, long time.
Suzy Amis
#42. Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?
Jodi Picoult
#43. There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
Louis Jourdan
#44. Most people's lives - what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death.
Tennessee Williams
#46. The Norse myths are the myths of a chilly place, with long, long winter nights and endless summer days, myths of a people who did not entirely trust or even like their gods, although they respected and feared them.
Neil Gaiman
#47. All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek.
Gregory Maguire
#48. You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.
Nhat Hanh
#49. The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds,
Carol Rifka Brunt
#50. You don't see what's gone before. A lot of that can be long, long boring hours in the gym, long, long hours on the track or, for the likes of Paula Radcliffe, long hours out on the road in the rain running and running.
Jill Douglas
#51. Sometimes a little naivety goes a long long way!" (I said that)
Robert Greenfield
#52. I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.
John Cornyn
#53. You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin
#54. God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven
that kind of distance.
Ann Voskamp
#55. Annia of the red braid and the ferocious scowl and the long, long limbs. Annia Galeria Faustina ...
"Mine," I whispered, "Mine
Kate Quinn
#56. I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
Gary Hume
#57. We're planning on being married for a long, long time.
Nick Lachey
#58. I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
John Lennon
#59. Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.
Toni Morrison
#60. Long, long ago, I learned the heart cannot live in two places. I had to choose. My heart is in America. Where is yours?
Marivi Soliven
#61. I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Anne Tyler
#62. We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
Wislawa Szymborska
#63. I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.
Paul Beatty
#64. Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum's collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest of the world than any other country, for longer.
Neil MacGregor
#65. I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
Ray Kroc
#66. I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
Bonnie Raitt
#67. Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.
Michael Redd
#68. The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
Vincente Minnelli
#69. Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
Toni Morrison
#70. Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
Poul Anderson
#71. There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.
Amy Carmichael
#72. When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?
Richard Meltzer
#73. The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.
James Chanos
#74. I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn't even a sentence yet. But I had some syllables, some new sounds. The first halves of the sentences I was accumulating were solid. I trusted them.
Heather Sellers
#75. We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.
Sufjan Stevens
#76. I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.
Ann Romney
#77. We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
Edward T. Hall
#78. I kissed him for a long, long while. My hands wrapped on either side of his face pinned him and wouldn't let him pull away. I didn't want Kabe to ever pull away from me. Let the mountains fall and the stars burn out, I'd never let him go.
James Buchanan
#79. I realize that the nation is facing problems presently that it hasn't faced in a long, long time. But you have a recourse that the unredeemed do not have. That recourse, as you well know, is the Lord. He still answers prayer!
Jimmy Swaggart
#80. 'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.
Ellie Goulding
#81. I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.
Marjane Satrapi
#82. It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
Catherynne M Valente
#83. He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Jack Nicklaus
#84. And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in those mountains for a long long time ...
Farrah Naseem
#85. Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember I can rip your throat out if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker. That was a long, long time ago.
Alan Ball
#86. What will it be like, to die? What kind of light is there in death? Perhaps there will only be darkness. Perhaps there is nothing but a long, long night. Nothing but a long, long night.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#87. God Jake, I so much more than a lot like you."
"Mikayla, I passed that stage a long, long time ago.
Jay McLean
#88. I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
Marianne Faithfull
#89. Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade ... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.
Robert D. Arnott
#90. The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water ... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water ...
Ray Bradbury
#91. If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.
Andrew Lang
#92. I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.
Scott Speedman
#93. So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
Robert Bloch
#94. Behind me there are already so many memories ( ... ) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.
Ivan Turgenev
#95. Just one person. It really honestly just takes one positive person. One positive person can help you. And that can go a long, long way. - Alexis
Robert Uttaro
#96. In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.
Fred Melamed
#97. Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.
Simon Winchester
#98. Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
Lauren DeStefano
#99. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
Callimachus
#100. My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
Sadaharu Oh
