Long Quotes

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

~ Chris Rock

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.

~ Rick Riordan

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

~ Patty Duke

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

~ Megan Amram

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.

~ Hideki Tojo

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

~ Oswald Spengler

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

~ William Lyon Mackenzie King

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

~ Evel Knievel

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

~ Alan Greenspan

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

~ George Eliot

Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure.

~ Tony Bennett

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

~ Shannen Doherty

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.

~ P. J. O'rourke

While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.

~ John Rampton

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

~ John Grant

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

~ Paul Auster

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

~ S. Jay Olshansky

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

~ Leslie Fiedler

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

~ Don Willett

I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

~ Natascha Mcelhone

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

~ Miranda Lambert

Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet.

~ Alan Stern

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

~ Ben Carson

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

~ Janet Jackson

It makes no difference to my family where one comes from as long as we make each other happy. They are pretty cool like that.

~ Amy Jackson

You can't go wrong with reading the fans and letting them tell you who they like. I think that's really paid off for me in the long run - being down to earth and just really cool with each and every fan that I meet - and they've really supported me through thick and thin.

~ Jeff Hardy

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

~ Bertolt Brecht

One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.

~ Erik Larson

The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.

~ David Crystal

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

~ Jacques Barzun

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

~ Mike Fitzpatrick

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

~ Nick Faldo

Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.

~ Venus Williams

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

~ Jack Nicklaus

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

~ Curt Schilling