Long Quotes

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

~ Venus Williams

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

~ Vanessa Hudgens

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

~ Justin Timberlake

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.

~ Geoff Johns

When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.

~ Sherwood Smith

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

~ Eminem

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

~ William Wordsworth

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!

~ Tristan Wilds

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

~ Kendrick Lamar

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

~ Igor Stravinsky

As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.

~ Trey Anastasio

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

~ Lamorne Morris

Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

~ M.i.a.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

~ Jonathan Swift

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

~ Henry Miller

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

~ Liz Phair

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

~ Anita Shreve

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

~ Don Marquis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~ C. S. Lewis

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

~ Sarah Mclachlan

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

~ Gary Larson

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

~ Booth Tarkington

My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

~ Sabrina Carpenter

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

~ Amber Riley

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

~ William Arthur Ward

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

~ Du Fu

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

~ Travis Bradberry

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

~ Tim Cahill

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

~ Michael K. Simpson

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.

~ Peter L. Bergen

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

~ Douglas Brinkley

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

~ Lindsey Graham

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

~ Victoria Moran

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

~ Hans-Georg Gadamer

We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.

~ Rick Wright

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

~ Arne Jacobsen

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

~ Helmut Jahn