Long famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
-- Alice Munro -
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
-- Alice Munro -
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
-- Alice Paul -
Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
-- Alice Sebold -
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
-- Alice Walker -
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
-- Alice Walker -
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
-- Alice Walker -
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
-- Alice Walker -
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
-- Alice Walker -
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
-- Alice Walker -
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
-- Alice Walker -
I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
-- Alicia Keys -
What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .
-- Alicia Witt -
People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.
-- Alija Izetbegovic -
Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins..
-- Alison Croggon -
Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.
-- Alison Croggon -
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
-- Alison Gopnik -
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.
-- Alison Sweeney -
The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.
-- Alistair Darling -
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.
-- Alistair Maclean -
I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.
-- Allen Covert -
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
-- Allen Klein -
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
-- Allen Newell -
What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.
-- Allen Tate -
For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.
-- Allen West -
Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired." "Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?" "Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.
-- Ally Carter -
So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.
-- Ally Carter -
But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
-- Ally Carter -
No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.
-- Ally Carter -
Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.
-- Ally Carter -
It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
-- Ally Condie -
I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed
-- Ally McCoist -
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.
-- Alonzo M. Clark -
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
-- Althea Gibson -
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 -
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
-- Alvin Ailey -
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
-- Alvin Dark -
Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.
-- Alvin Holmes -
I'd rather be the half of us, the least of you, the best of me; and I will be - I'll be your prince, I'll be your saint, I will go crashing through fences in your name; I will, I swear - I'll be someone to fall back on. I'll be the one who waits, and for as long as you let me, I will be the one you need - I'll be someone to fall back on.
-- Aly Michalka -
I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.
-- Alyson Stoner -
I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.
-- Alyssa Milano -
Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole career thinking Ill never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.
-- Amanda Hocking -
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?
-- Amanda Seyfried -
As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
-- Amber Riley -
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach
-- Amber Tamblyn -
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.
-- Amby Burfoot -
Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
-- Amby Burfoot -
All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
My coach told me I had to expect, you know, some long rallies and stuff. So, you know, I was ready for this.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.
-- America Ferrera -
I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.
-- America Ferrera -
I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.
-- Ami Vitale -
life is not so long that one can grow tired of it
-- Amin Maalouf -
Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.
-- Amit Abraham -
Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.
-- Amit Goswami -
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.
-- Amit Ray -
Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
-- Amit Ray -
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.
-- Amory Lovins -
Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
-- Amory Lovins -
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
-- Amos Oz -
Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.
-- Amy Adams -
Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?
-- Amy Argetsinger -
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom -
You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.
-- Amy Chua -
When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
-- Amy Clampitt -
This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.
-- Amy Grant -
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
-- Amy Hempel -
At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.
-- Amy Lee -
You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.
-- Amy Pascal -
Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.
-- Amy Poehler -
If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.
-- Amy Seimetz -
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-- Amy Welborn -
Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.
-- Amy-Jill Levine -
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
-- Anais Nin -
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
-- Anais Nin -
Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!
-- Anais Nin -
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!
-- Anchee Min -
As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
-- Anderson Cooper -
I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.
-- Anderson Cooper -
When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.
-- Anderson Cooper -
When you use the steroids, you use them for a long time. When you use the ***** for a long time, you have a problem. It’s a drug and it’s not good for the sport.
-- Anderson Silva -
I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.
-- Andie MacDowell -
The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
-- Andre Agassi
