Long Quotes

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

~ Michael Graves

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

~ Gustav Stickley

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

~ James Wyatt

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

~ Kathleen Troia Mcfarland

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

~ Narendra Modi

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

~ Edmund Morgan

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

~ Judy Biggert

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

~ Gavyn Davies

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

~ Yoko Ono

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

~ Buddy Rich

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

~ Timothy Olyphant

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

~ Steven Pinker

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

~ Daniel Tammet

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

~ Franz Kafka

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

~ Michael Chang

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

~ Ivan Pavlov

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

~ George Orwell

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

~ Etta James

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

~ Octavia E. Butler

I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.

~ Rich Cohen

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

~ Bernard Katz

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

~ Daniel Dennett

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

~ Robert Winston

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

~ Pope Francis

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

~ Voltaire

It takes a long time to become young.

~ Pablo Picasso

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

~ Madeleine Albright

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

~ Alice Paul

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

~ Marlon Brando