You Took Too Long Quotes

#1. So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?"
"Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

Rusty Fischer

#2. This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I ... that was on inside of me and not play games ...

Janis Joplin

#3. But in that moment, I felt it happen. My heart slowed, took a deep breath, and let out a giant sigh. Just like that, it gave in, unable to fight it anymore. I had no idea how long we had or how things were going to play out, but I knew without a doubt that I was in love with Carter. ***

Penelope Ward

#4. She smiled brightly, and the sum of their entire relationship could be condensed into that exchange: two actors playing their parts to perfection. Sad that it took so long for him to finally see that.

Alessandra Torre

#5. He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.

Colleen Coble

#6. Sometimes things can take a very long time and still not be very good. It took us all of evolutionary history just to get where we are today, for instance, and mostly where we are today is on the couch.

Gina Barreca

#7. What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I'm not sure of it.

Samuel Beckett

#8. and she smiles at me, my best friend, with her long, tangled blond hair and thick eyelashes and her smile that lights up any room. My other half. The girl who took my hand all those years ago and didn't let go until she had to.

Kristin Hannah

#9. I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.

Alton Brown

#10. Nature: it's own creation, it's own mystery, existing long before we took our first breaths and long after we take our last.

Sarah Ockler

#11. Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

Allan Dare Pearce

#12. My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

Anthony Doerr

#13. When Jack walked in he took a calculated seat at the bar, it didn't take long for a chill to set into the room.

Kenneth Eade

#14. We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

Pete Stark

#15. It took me a long while to realize that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me from shattering completely.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time.

Jeffery Deaver

#17. The note took long moments to fade and, when it had at last died away, there was an absolute hush over the world, the milling millions were still, there was an air of expectancy. And then the White Lords came.

Michael Moorcock

#18. You took so long I got bored." She widened her smile, teeth showing. "Next time freshen up quicker, princess.

Katherine McIntyre

#19. I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

Billy Joel

#20. Where did they go?"
"Don't know." The prisoner cracked a smile too big for his thin face. "I don't think they did, either. You should have seen how long it took them to open an Announcer. Looked like couple of bumbling fools."
Daniel felt himself almost begin to laugh.

Lauren Kate

#21. But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all.
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Charles Bukowski

#22. What do you want?"
His brow lifted at that, and he took a long, leisurely study of her face. "I'll let that pass,"he decided.
"It's too easy.

Nora Roberts

#23. Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word
death? Dying? Dead?
Do you think I was being stupid? Naive?
Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me.
I thought I would live forever too.

Lauren Oliver

#24. Marissa Mayer, who became one of Silicon Valley's most famous working mothers not long after she took over as Yahoo's CEO in 2012, says that burnout isn't caused by working too hard, but by resentment at having to give up what really matters to you.

Eric Schmidt

#25. Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you're searching, ponder this: We've taken what you'll sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look, And to recover what we took, But past an hour - the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.

J.K. Rowling

#26. It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

Michael Douglas

#27. I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

Lauren DeStefano

#28. Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.

Haruki Murakami

#29. When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in her jaws. It took me a moment to register that it was a very fresh-looking human spine. Damn, she was hungry.

David Wong

#30. It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone, doesn't mean they deserve it.

Steve Maraboli

#31. Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.

Carolina Herrera

#32. 'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#33. He took a step back, his wings beating the air like mighty drums. As long as the people who matter most know the truth, I don't care about the rest. Get some sleep.

Sarah J. Maas

#34. There's nothing I can do that's going to drive you away, is there?" I murmured.
Owen flashed me a sly grin. "Finally figuring that out, are you?
I nodded.
His grin deepened. "Well, it sure took you long enough.

Jennifer Estep

#35. I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

Victoria Osteen

#36. And took us to the end of long, dark tunnels, which were filled with green rock and dust. My job was to load rock after it had been blasted, and I did this for seven hours a day. I grew

Alexander McCall Smith

#37. I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.

Will Hobbs

#38. No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good ... she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.

Olive Green

#39. If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

Phil Ramone

#40. When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all.

Barbara Pym

#41. Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

Marguerite Young

#42. It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

Margaret Thatcher

#43. I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

Pia Zadora

#44. Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

Melissa Manchester

#45. I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

Noel Wells

#46. It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

Manal Al-Sharif

#47. I heard you calling to me, love. I'm sorry it took me so long it get here.

Corrine Jackson

#48. I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

Matthew Pearl

#49. We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so.

Dweezil Zappa

#50. I grew up in Bellport, Long Island where I attended Gateway Acting School and met Robin Allan. She was the school's director who took me under her wing and was the one who told me that I could do this for real.

Brendan Dooling

#51. Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns need a Copernican reminder that they are not the center of the universe either!

Neal A. Maxwell

#52. I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.

Holly Black