Quotes and Sayings About Long
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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
-- A. A. Gill -
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
-- A. A. Milne -
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
-- A. A. Milne -
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
-- A. B. Simpson -
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
-- A. C. Benson -
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
-- A. E. Housman -
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
-- A. E. Housman -
Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
-- A. G. Mohan -
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
-- A. J. Liebling -
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
-- A. Whitney Brown -
People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.
-- A.C. Grayling -
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
-- Aaliyah -
It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
-- Aaliyah -
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
-- Aaron Copland -
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
-- Aaron Feuerstein -
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
-- Aaron Klein -
Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
-- Aaron Koblin -
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
-- Aaron Levie -
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
-- Aaron McGruder -
It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.
-- Aaron Neville -
When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time
-- Aaron Neville -
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
-- Aaron Paul -
As long as I have my legs and commitment to the team, then I'll keep playing.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
-- Aaron Stanford