Top 100 Very Long Quotes
#1. If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.
Frederick Lenz
#2. I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
Ben Okri
#3. Around here ... we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things.
Walt Disney Company
#4. I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Jane Rule
#5. Grief doesn't hit and run; it stays. and sometimes for a very long time.
Adriana Trigiani
#7. Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.
Jennifer Beals
#8. And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
Jodi Picoult
#9. I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.
Ashley Greene
#10. For a very long time, we've been extraordinarily interested in the interaction between low temperature and low oxygen. We see that they're connected because we know people who are extremely cold are not getting oxygen to their cells. And yet, they're sometimes alive.
Mark Roth
#11. Smiles that are meant to hide something never last very long, especially when the smile is hiding guilt (pg. 183).
Amy Kathleen Ryan
#12. I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
Raymond Chandler
#13. Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
Andrew Cuomo
#14. He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.
Sam Walton
#16. People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the right buyer. If things don't succeed on a particular network, they're not going to stay on very long.
Jon Feltheimer
#17. The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.
Dan Simmons
#18. I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#19. I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
Lena Dunham
#20. The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.
Dave Koz
#21. I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
Nathan Fillion
#22. That seemed like so very long ago. But I had. As long as the doors weren't completely evil, I'd lost no more than an evening. Smiling, I pulled on my boots and checked the placement of my dagger in its holster. As
Kalayna Price
#23. It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.
Daniel Handler
#24. While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
Tim Ryan
#25. Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
#26. I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck
#27. One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.
John Steinbeck
#28. The answers will always be no," he says.
I smile sadly over my shoulder. "Always is a very long time.
Kelly St. Clare
#29. But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.
Marya Hornbacher
#30. Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
Catherine Deneuve
#31. No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.
Pawan Mishra
#32. Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and present it to someone special, for it's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a very long time.
Cecelia Ahern
#33. I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.
Erlend Loe
#34. I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
Jean Houston
#35. When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book.
Jay Parini
#36. It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Caroline Richards
#37. I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.
Megan McCafferty
#38. Thinking too much has been my problem for a very long time.
Rick Yancey
#39. I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.
Justin Cronin
#40. After a very long time we spent together, he still looks at me as if I'm his whole world and that is the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.
Yuli Pritania
#41. If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.
Michael Birch
#42. Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah
#43. Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it's almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the hospital for a week or two just to take a rest.
Marcia Angell
#44. I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
Tony Scott
#45. Cost does not equal value ... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
Tom Peters
#46. I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
Virginia Woolf
#47. On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
Philippe Petit
#48. Hey, I've been alive for a very, very long time. Boring," she sang out. "Gotta do something for kicks, and a good apocalypse every now and then fills the cracks. It's like the Super Bowl for us gods ... but without the beer and everyone could die. Fun, right?
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#49. Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#50. They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised.
Sherman Austin
#51. Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.
Taylor Swift
#52. I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
George Carey
#53. I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.
Shehan Karunatilaka
#54. Here is the blackness of space, the myriad stars gleaming like diamond dust or, as some people would say, like great balls of exploding hydrogen a very long way off. But then, some people would say anything. A
Terry Pratchett
#55. No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments,
Wendell Berry
#56. Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
Carly Fiorina
#57. I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.
Phyllis Diller
#58. Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
Diana Wynne Jones
#59. I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
Sheryl Crow
#60. You were drinking sangria and I was throwing oranges at you,
but it didn't matter.
I said my arms are very long and your head's on fire.
I said kiss me here and here and here
and you did.
Richard Siken
#61. In lifeproof houses they hover over the young, sop up a little of what they shut out. Only the young bring anything in, and they are not young very long.
William S. Burroughs
#62. They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.
M.F. Moonzajer
#63. When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.
Michael Douglas
#64. The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
Nick Turse
#65. Since God has given it such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge.
Teresa Of Avila
#66. There are uproars and there are uproars, and this uproar stayed up for a very long time.
Terry Pratchett
#67. Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
Junot Diaz
#68. 'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#69. Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.
Abdellah Taia
#70. I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.
Ang Lee
#71. Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
Jasper Fforde
#72. For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.
Robert Alexander
#73. Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?'
'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.
J.K. Rowling
#74. I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
Haruki Murakami
#75. He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#76. As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.
Elizabeth Brundage
#77. My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Stephen Greenblatt
#78. Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.
Adam Gopnik
#79. I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.
Rachel Vincent
#80. It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.
Henry Bonilla
#81. We would go to visit a wholesaler, say in Napoli. We would go out, have a very long lunch, mozzarellas, wine. We would reach an agreement. And then the client would pay with a cheque that was postdated by six months, nine months. They were financing themselves by delaying their payments.
Sandro Veronesi
#82. Duplication and expressiveness take me a very long way into what I consider clean code, and improving dirty code with just these two things in mind can make a huge difference. There is, however, one other thing that I'm aware of doing, which is a bit harder to explain.
Robert C. Martin
#83. There are a lot of people who don't think girl groups last very long, but Girls' Generation wants to break that theory.
Seohyun
#84. A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa ... She was four feet tall and probably black..
Norman F. Cantor
#85. My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
Uzo Aduba
#86. And do come a little closer. I don't bite. Except . . . we've known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that's not entirely true. Is it? I
Stephen King
#87. I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
William Devane
#88. Books are sharks ... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas Adams
#89. You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.
Tonya Hurley
#90. I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.
Jean Pigozzi
#91. He smiled, a real smile, the kind real boys gave real girls. "It's been a very long time since anyone worried for me.
Holly Black
#92. There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.
Thabo Mbeki
#93. My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.
Annie Leibovitz
#94. Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.
Tina Turner
#95. I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
Portia De Rossi
#96. Well, I suppose he's stuck with you forever then."
"Yes, and forever is a very long time."
He pauses and then says, "Well, for the record, something tells me he wouldn't have it any other way.
J.A. Redmerski
#97. Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#98. I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.
Anna Godbersen
#99. Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you.
Brian Andreas
#100. We haven't been together very long," I reminded him.
"You love me and I love you. How long does that need to be?"
Knight and Anya Gage
Kristen Ashley
