Top 100 Longest Time Quotes
#1. For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.
Christopher Poole
#2. When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.
Seth
#3. Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
Booth Tarkington
#4. For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
Daniel Johnston
#5. For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I thing they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.
Alexandra Bracken
#6. For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.
Jacqueline Emerson
#7. I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.
Paul Walker
#8. Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.
Richard Siken
#9. As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.
Emraan Hashmi
#10. I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
Robert Carlyle
#11. For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
James Mercer
#12. For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.
Mark Ruffalo
#13. For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
Heidi Klum
#14. For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
Bipasha Basu
#15. Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time.
Tika Sumpter
#16. It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
Toni Morrison
#18. I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
#19. You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man,'Laina said, ...
'You know that song?'
'Of course. People used to recite it in the war. I didn't know it was a song. For the longest time I thought it was from the Qur'an.
Anthony Marra
#20. I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.
Ryan Potter
#21. For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
Jon Scieszka
#22. I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#23. For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
Zedd
#24. In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
James Russell Lowell
#25. I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.
Bill Bryson
#26. It's funny ... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.
Bryan Batt
#28. I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
Dana Plato
#29. For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.
Beverley Mitchell
#30. For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.
Michael Symon
#31. Only the strong survived. Only the strong were rewarded. For the longest time, Four was another conquest. A prize Three had won. Then he'd realized Four was the one who dominated. He'd tamed the dragon, the monster, and given a conscience to Stone's most ruthless killer.
Adrienne Wilder
#32. For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.
Clay Matthews III
#33. The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death ... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
Epicurus
#34. For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
Bjorn Lomborg
#35. I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.
It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.
Brian Andreas
#36. For the longest time all I cared about was getting through the day. When your every breath was an effort, that quickly became the extent of your expectations.
A Meredith Walters
#37. For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on.
Benjamin Stone
#38. His words hung between us for the longest time before he whispered, "Someone you could lean on when you were tired of standing on your own." Was he fucking serious? Did he really think I saw him as weak? Or unworthy in any sense of the word? "I
Sloane Kennedy
#39. For the longest time I was just trying to find someone to love as much as I loved you, but now I realize that's never going to happen ...
Manthan Jariwala
#40. For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.
Diane Ackerman
#41. My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.
Matthew Perry
#42. If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.
John Cena
#43. If I am anorexic, I'd be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.
Anushka Sharma
#44. I've been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time - I'm always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I'll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I'm a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don't look forward to.
Dustin Milligan
#45. The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
Gifford Pinchot
#46. I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.
Chad Lindberg
#47. I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?
Benjamin Brindise
#48. I've hated you for the longest time, but I've loved you for longer." ~ Stefan #5 The Veil Series, Ties That Bind,
Pippa DaCosta
#49. My parents loved me, and I think they realized that I was probably not going to have a normal 9-to-5 job. For the longest time, my dad thought that I was just going to be home until I was, like, 35, which, weirdly, is completely normal in Asian families.
Jason Wu
#50. I scream at the top of my lungs for the longest time. And I know I should stop, but I can't. It just keeps coming out. But I don't cry. I won't let myself cry.
Alyson Noel
#51. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
John Green
#52. I so badly wanted to fit into their world. For the longest time, I've dreamt about living a life of a social butterfly, of being one of them. Now, I'm repulsed by the mere idea of mingling with them.
M.A. Abraham
#53. We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
Janet Reno
#54. I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.
Jordan Francis
#55. Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.
Ken Mehlman
#56. In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.
Patti LuPone
#57. For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?
Yes, we should believe it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.
Chet Faker
#59. I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
Alison Tyler
#60. We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
Claudio Reyna
#61. I want to be young for the longest time possible.
Onew
#62. I've been passing through for the longest time.
Anne Rice
#63. For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'
Allyn Rachel
#64. The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.
Michael Schiavo
#65. The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.
Deborah Cox
#66. I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.
Margaret Atwood
#67. For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
Gero Miesenbock
#68. For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
Eliza Dushku
#69. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
Hunter Hayes
#70. It was all I wanted for the longest time- to open my eyes and see you there. To stretch out my hand and touch the soft, yielding warmth of your skin. But now I have learned the secret of distance. Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.
Lang Leav
#71. A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#72. One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
Henry David Thoreau
#73. The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you'd got wrong, the chances you'd missed, the errors you'd made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.
Juliet Marillier
#74. The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.
Jack Todd
#75. Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
Joe Abercrombie
#76. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.
Elmer Kelton
#77. Put all these numbers together and what do they add up to? In a sentence: We are the healthiest, wealthiest, and longest-lived people in history. And we are increasingly afraid. This is one of the great paradoxes of our time.
Daniel Gardner
#78. As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#79. Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.
Seneca.
#80. I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.
Joe Calzaghe
#82. I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#83. I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
Vik Muniz
#84. The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.
Rick Moody
#85. What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.
Hunter S. Thompson
#86. Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
Marcus Buckingham
#87. Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
J Mascis
#88. God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.
Nicholas Sparks
#89. This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each other. Man, this has to be the longest fall ever if I have the time to think all this.
Swati Avasthi
#90. Not sure I get why this shit's a secret but you two bein' just a hookup is not where that's at. Unless you're going'for the all-time record of longest hookup, and, just a head's up, brother, there's another way people refer to that shit and it's called a relationship.
Kristen Ashley
#91. But unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.
Nicholas Sparks
#92. I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system ... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.
Daniel Radcliffe
#93. The longest prayer Peter ever prayed in the Senate-that of March 10, 1947, at the time of Mrs. Alben Barkley's death-took two minutes; the shortest, that which opened the Second Session of the Eightieth Congress-was exactly 36 words long and took a matter of seconds.
Peter Marshall
#94. When you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, you possess a resource that can give you abundant life through the longest siege of the enemy. The enemy can camp at your doorstep for an indefinite period of time and it won't matter to you. The Holy Spirit is your indwelling source of
David Jeremiah
#95. 'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
Jill Lepore
#96. Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all! ... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
Charles Dickens
#97. Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.
Nigel Hamilton
#99. 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
#100. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.
Elizabeth Berg
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