Top 14 Longish Quotes

#1. In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

Morris West

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#2. Like we forget about everything else. Because when you don't admit out loud that someone awful has happened, who is to say it ever did?

Jodi Picoult

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#3. You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

Nick Nolte

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#4. To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

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#5. Another longish pause. His eyelids were getting heavy. "Ever kill a man, Marlowe?" "Yes." "Nasty feeling, isn't it?" "Some people like it." His eyes went shut all the way. Then they opened again, but they looked vague. "How could they?

Raymond Chandler

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#6. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

Leelee Sobieski

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#7. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Maria Montessori

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#8. To fight with the best of them, but with words, with lots and

Gayle Forman

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#9. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Loudon Wainwright III

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#10. Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

Jose Saramago

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#11. Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.

Ezra Pound

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#12. I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

Mark McGwire

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#13. And, oh yes, I did see Nessie! But that was much later on after a late evening that involved several pints and more than my share of Scapa Flow whisky. Nice girl. Pretty face. Longish neck. Not much in the leg department.

Ian MacGregger

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#14. Some of the most vivid writing in America is on the walls of restrooms. The men's room in the Albany, N.Y. railroad station, for instance, should be preserved as a national shrine: there is more wit there than in any Broadway hit!

Truman Capote

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