Top 100 Quotes About A Long Time
#1. When I go on my boat or to my vacation houses, where I still unfortunately spend very little time, I don't go with the celebrities I know but with a close group of friends and people who have worked with me for a long time.
Giorgio Armani
#2. The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
George P. Shultz
#3. I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
Palmer Luckey
#4. I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
Stephen Malkmus
#5. A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
He had it all backwards.
Arya the lone wolf, still lives, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.
George R R Martin
#6. For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is.
Nikki Rowe
#7. I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.
Darlene Love
#8. It's interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.
Susane Colasanti
#9. On Phantom ... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really ... I was so excited about it. It's been a long time since I really got so excited about something.
Gerard Butler
#10. Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
Katharine Hepburn
#11. I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.
Hunter Hayes
#12. May the soul of the late President Milton Obote ... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
Yoweri Museveni
#13. I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#14. Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
Richard P. Feynman
#15. Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.
William Anders
#16. Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
Gloria Steinem
#17. For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.
Juliana Hatfield
#18. For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.
Sergio Chejfec
#19. There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
Grace Paley
#20. It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.
Nic Sheff
#21. I played golf for 25 years before I made a hole-in-one of any kind. I was on the tour for years before it finally happened. Eventually I made 23, but boy, that first one was a long time coming. It was the price I paid for not shooting at every flag.
Billy Casper
#22. Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you ...
Colette
#23. For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.
Kurt Braunohler
#24. That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.
Terry Pratchett
#25. I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
Sara Paretsky
#26. Whoever made you doubt how amazing you are, whoever broke your heart ... I'm going to hate them for a long time."
"It's okay."
"How is that okay?"
"Because I found someone who's kind of putting it back together again.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#27. I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
Barbara Park
#28. I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
#29. I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.
Robert M. Gates
#30. It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
Julie Walters
#31. I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
Patrick Rothfuss
#32. I bought a house right before the housing crisis happened. So I paid too much and then I was stuck with it for a long time. So that was sad for me. I was like, "I'd better make a movie about this to get it out of my system."
Hamish Linklater
#33. I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.
Johnny Depp
#34. Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians. These parallel global warmings
observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth
can only be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a long-time change in solar irradiance.
Khabibullo Abdusamatov
#35. I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!
Doreen Cronin
#36. Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.
Pedro Almodovar
#37. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.
Maj Sjowall
#38. Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
Victor Koo
#39. You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.
Patton Oswalt
#40. The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
Gary Cole
#41. She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
Elizabeth Scott
#42. Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.
Brian Acton
#43. What should we be doing in the meantime?"
"All of the things you will look back on fondly later when you have not been able to do them for a long time.
Neal Stephenson
#44. After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.
Nevil Shute
#45. To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.
Ernest Hemingway,
#46. If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.
Terry H. Anderson
#47. I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.
Gisele Bundchen
#48. A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.
Elvis Presley
#49. You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time
Vincent De Paul
#50. I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.
Jason Wu
#51. I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.
Matt Bomer
#52. An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
Terence McKenna
#53. I think Hanson is gonna be around for a long time. I think that they're three great, talented young men.
Puff Daddy
#54. He was Love,& yet did not know what love was.And indeed it had taken a long time for him to find out that Love was also Hate,since Love could turn into Hate,& vice versa.And between Love & Hate, was Chaos[Confusion].
Nicholas Chong
#55. Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
Barton Gellman
#56. People who like to cook like to talk about food ... without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.
Laurie Colwin
#57. Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
E.W. Howe
#58. Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.
Paulo Coelho
#59. I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.
Jeremy Clarkson
#60. I learned a long time ago that the honest and just don't always win. Good doesn't always conquer. Sometimes the bad guys win. Sometimes they win for a very long time, because the masses are afraid to challenge them.
Anthony DiFiore
#61. I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.
Katherine Jenkins
#62. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.
Ray Bradbury
#63. Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.
Georges Cuvier
#64. Turtle Tail, I know you'll always be with me," he called. "You waited a long time for our love to grow and it won't die now. I'll fight for you, Turtle Tail, and I'll make sure that your kits have a future on the moor, safe among friends." The clouds touched, becoming one. "I will not fail you.
Erin Hunter
#65. It was the best night in he had had in a long time, maybe ever. Finally, as he told her goodbye, he knew he had some things to take care of when he got back home. Chicago was home now. As long as she was there, it was his home.
Mia Castile
#66. I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#67. He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time.
Anais Nin
#68. The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.
William Browning Spencer
#69. I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.
Kristen Wiig
#70. Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.
Matthew B. Crawford
#71. I once learned, a long time ago, to get what you want, to have all the power, to be the hero and the good guy, you have to make everyone else look like the bad guy.
Angela Richardson
#72. There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.
Peter Criss
#73. Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.
Han Kang
#74. There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.
Maya Angelou
#75. Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.
Marya Hornbacher
#76. Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
Ben Marcus
#77. Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
Roman Jakobson
#78. You have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis
#79. There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
Alan Moore
#80. My father played with Air Supply, Yes, B.B. King and even Sheryl Crow when she first started out, so I've sort of been around the industry for a long time.
Lindsey Haun
#81. When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
J. Tillman
#82. I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.
Saoirse Ronan
#83. Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.
Cormac McCarthy
#84. So now what?" I ask.
She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she's gone to sleep.
"I think this is just part of it," she says. "Civilisations fall. People keep going.
Daniel H. Wilson
#85. A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner
#86. I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
Brendan Coyle
#87. I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.
Helen Vendler
#88. I've been extremely lucky in that I've been a very successful model for a long time. So now I'm an actress and a mother. I'm a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be - I've wanted to act since I was 14 - and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.
Jerry Hall
#89. I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
Ruben Studdard
#90. Just let me be strong for you for a minute, okay?" He said softly. "You've held on for a long time, sweetheart. Nobody can say you haven't been strong. But it's been a hell of a night, so why don't you let me hold you and help you right now, okay?
Joanna Wylde
#91. I don't know where the money would come from, I don't have that answer, but I've been wanting to do something for music education for a long time as it's a big part of not only our band but my whole life.
Sean Mackin
#92. Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#93. Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.
Leston Havens
#94. There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
Candice Accola
#95. What are you doing?"
"What I've wanted to do for a long time."
She couldn't move, couldn't think. She was lost in his dark eyes, and as he slowly lowered his head toward hers, she whispered, "Are you going to throttle me, then?"
He was laughing when he kissed her.
Julie Garwood
#96. Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.
Jen Lancaster
#97. In the early days, I used to see him all the time. Like, in the street, or I'd see a man in a bar and be
so sure it was him that my heart would start racing. I used to hear his voice in crowds. But that stopped,
a long time ago. Now, I think he might be dead.
Paula Hawkins
#98. When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
Vikram Seth
#99. For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.
Elizabeth Berg
#100. For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.
Lauren Oliver
