Long Quotes

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

~ Joe Dimaggio

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

~ Kate Middleton

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

~ Keith Ellison

Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.

~ Richard Preston

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

~ Jennifer Beals

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

~ Bruce Rauner

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

~ Marcus Buckingham

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

~ Stephen Covey

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

~ Lisa Morton

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

~ Chet Atkins

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

~ Daley Thompson

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

~ Bill Kurtis

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

~ Keith Henson

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

~ Robert Bringhurst

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

~ Horace

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

~ Billy Collins

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

~ Edward Hirsch

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

~ Russell Smith

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

~ Eileen Myles

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

~ Coco Chanel

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

~ Sigmund Freud

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

~ Douglas Coupland

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

~ David Horsey

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

~ John Dryden

We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.

~ Raoul Peck

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

~ Wilson Mizner

As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

~ Joe Rogan

I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying to build fitness. I'm simply trying to keep away any kind of tension. I go for long walks to clear my head.

~ Viswanathan Anand

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

~ Marcia Cross

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

~ Miriam Makeba

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

~ John Locke

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

~ Maya Angelou

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

~ Buffalo Bill

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

~ Mickey Mantle

For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.

~ Ivana Trump

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

~ Andy Warhol

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

~ Kin Hubbard