Long Quotes

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

~ Asif Kapadia

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

~ Gary Mccord

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

~ John Steinbeck

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

~ Douglas Adams

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

~ Isabelle Holland

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

~ Lou Rawls

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

~ Arthur Cayley

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

~ Seth Shostak

A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.

~ Seth Shostak

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

~ Helen Mirren

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

~ Martin Rees

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

~ Shirley Maclaine

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

~ C. S. Forester

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

~ Andrew Gould

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.

~ Kirsty Gallacher

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

~ Stephen Root

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

~ Robert Moog

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

~ Thomas Huxley

I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.

~ Edward Zwick

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

~ Thomas S. Monson

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

~ Gloria Stuart

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

~ Shakira

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

~ Jeff Bezos

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

~ Anthony Foxx

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

~ Dick Cheney

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

~ Tom Bodett

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

~ Matt Damon

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

~ Maisie Williams

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

~ Sharon Stone

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!

~ Kevin Plank

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

~ D. B. Sweeney

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.

~ J. D. Vance

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

~ Maria Semple

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

~ Kin Hubbard

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

~ Jon Landau

I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

~ Zach Anner

Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.

~ Stephen Rodrick

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

~ Norman O. Brown