Top 100 Takes A Long Time Quotes
#1. I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.
Joey Comeau
#2. It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.
Jim Harrison
#3. I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.
Craig David
#4. Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
Cyndi Lauper
#5. God does not change, but our readiness for such a God takes a long time to change.
Richard Rohr
#6. Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that's happened in last month to download into my brain. It's nice, not knowing. Even if it's just for five minutes.
Scott Westerfeld
#7. It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you're lucky and you stick it out.
Ruby Dee
#8. The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
John Dingell
#10. Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn't. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change ... but change happens in a heartbeat!
Andy Andrews
#11. It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.
Ruth Ozeki
#12. Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.
Adriana Trigiani
#13. I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.
Ravi Shankar
#14. It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
Dave Gahan
#15. It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
Howard Hodgkin
#16. First we pre-visualized it so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
Ang Lee
#17. Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.
Roz Chast
#18. A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.
Zhuangzi
#19. I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.
John Sherman Cooper
#20. If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.
Sara Sheridan
#21. The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
Sean Durkin
#22. Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.
Albert Camus
#23. It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#24. Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Khaled Hosseini
#25. The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes I don't travel to do research, but mostly I do. It takes a long time, but do I ever get tired of it? Not really. The characters kind of grow and evolve.
Jan Brett
#26. Zarek
shrugged, taking it in stride. "I'm an asshole. I admit it. I've been
going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a
few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than
me." -ZAREK
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. I was feeling right at home all by myself. The woods can be a bit strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never again really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you don't notice.
Jim Harrison
#28. You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive
or even boring.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
Stellan Skarsgard
#31. I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.
James Cameron
#32. I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.
Jess Glynne
#33. It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they're basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put quality into a product, then have it validated, you have huge credibility.
Mickey Drexler
#34. Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
Jet Li
#35. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously.
Haruki Murakami
#38. Most people live under the misconception that it takes a long time to change. This is not true. It can take a long time to prepare to change or to decide to change or even to want to change. Change itself, however, happens in a heartbeat.
Andy Andrews
#39. If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach the right consistency. By then, the freshness is gone.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#40. The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.
Frederick Lenz
#41. One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and a hindrance. Hence, it usually takes a long time before the new concepts are generally accepted.
Werner Heisenberg
#42. It takes a long time to write something that is easy to read.
Brian McDonald
#43. It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.
Bill Hader
#44. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.
Margery Williams
#45. The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K. Dick
#46. I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.
John Cleese
#47. It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
Miles Davis
#48. It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.
Edward Lear
#49. It doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.
Eudora Welty
#50. It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
David Morrissey
#51. Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight? It comforts them very much but we know there is no thing to fear. It is only missing it that's bad. Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#52. As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.
Junot Diaz
#53. If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.
Douglas Conant
#54. It takes a long time for a heart to heal. The next time passion comes along you won't be so eager to respond. Love and pain go hand in hand and it can change a person forever.
Kate Mathis
#55. People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny
#56. Trust takes a long time to develop, but can be lost in the blink of an eye.
Frank Sonnenberg
#57. THEO: You should walk a fucking mile before you judge a situation. You should put yourself in someone else's shoes before you blame, or judge, or pity. It takes a long time to wear down someone's confidence, and it takes much more strength of will to walk away than it does to take another punch.
Con Riley
#58. Getting into God's stride means nothing less than oneness with Him. It takes a long time to get there, but keep at it. Don't give up because the pain is intense right now - get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.
Oswald Chambers
#59. It takes a long time to wake up. That's why it doesn't happen to people who are in a hurry.
Robin Gregory
#60. The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.
Mary Schapiro
#61. There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.
Tom Hardy
#62. Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.
Liberty Ross
#63. It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
Diana Ross
#64. I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.
Frank Sinatra
#66. When you're growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there's something different about you. On one level, you know there's something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.
Brooke Stevens
#67. I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
Laura Bell Bundy
#68. Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
Sara Sheridan
#69. I climb through the rubble toward the door. It takes a long time, time enough for a Giant to see me from the blood-red stained-glass eye window and reach out to crush me in his hand the size of a tractor.
Francesca Lia Block
#70. Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.
Donna Karan
#71. The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
Will Rogers
#72. I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
Alice Sebold
#73. It takes a long time to turn into what you're supposed to be.
Hope Jahren
#74. Everything was okay today, but I am not feeling okay. I think that when the things you like go away, you die a little bit inside, and I think that it takes a long time for you to feel okay again.
Abraham M. Alghanem
#75. It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.
Marty Rubin
#76. I'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage, and love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.
John Fowles
#77. Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
Ellsworth Kelly
#78. Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
Howard Nemerov
#79. I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they're beautiful things when they're done.
Jerry Seinfeld
#82. I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.
Aaron Tveit
#83. Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution
even if it's right in front of your nose.
Lemony Snicket
#85. You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.
Harry Connick Jr.
#86. If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature ... that's what takes a long time to learn.
Ron White
#87. You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.
Pete Cashmore
#88. Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.
Marc Edwards
#89. It takes a long time for words to become thought ...
May Sarton
#90. Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?
Haruki Murakami
#91. It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.
Terry Pratchett
#92. A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.
Mick Jones
#94. Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.
Tony Robbins
#95. It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
#97. It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.
Craig Ferguson
#98. It is hard to leave home, and sometimes it takes a long time. *
John Darnielle
#99. It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
Dana Spiotta
#100. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.
Graham Greene
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