My name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
- J R R Tolkien
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
- Edward Albee
...life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.
- Paulo Coelho
and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
- Jodi Picoult
The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
- Jodi Picoult
A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.
- Louisa May Alcott
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
- Brian Andreas
Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you.
- Brian Andreas
Mr Right:
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
- Brian Andreas
He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave beforejust indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.
- Patricia Briggs
I wish we had a donkey. The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys, Jane, Miss Bates, and me--and my caro sposo walking by. I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey. In a country life I conceive it to be a sort of necessary; for, let a woman have ever so many resources, it is not possible for her to be always shut up at home;--and very long walks, you know--in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt.
- Jane Austen
They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised.
- Sherman Austin
Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summer's day, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.
- Natalie Babbitt
One thing I won't be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don't like it, and I haven't bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I'm on. It's much easier.
- Scott Baio
Forever is a very long time Peter
- James M Barrie
The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.
- Mario Batali
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.
- Lemony Snicket
It makes me very sad at times to think about her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
- L M Montgomery
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
- L M Montgomery
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
- John Steinbeck
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
- Dirk Benedict
These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.
- Tom Berenger
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
- Buffalo Bill
Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.
- Drew Bledsoe
Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
- Robert Bloch
Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal
- William Shakespeare
i want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of doritos at a party
- Megan Boyle
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
- Lara Flynn Boyle
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
- David Brin
If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.
- Poppy Z Brite
I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.
- Jennifer Brown
I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.
- Alton Brown
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.
- Pearl S Buck
It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.
- Steve Burns
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.
- Emily Giffin
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
- Carly Fiorina
Who are you?' he asked suddenly.
I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.'
But I haven't got a brother,' objected Tommy.
It only shows how very long-lost I was,' replied his remarkable relative. 'But I assure you that, before they managed to long-loose me, I used to live in this house myself.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
... And the Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The Roman Empire necessarily became less Roman as it became more of an Empire; until not very long after Rome gave conquerors to Britain, Britain was giving emperors to Rome. Out of Britain, as the Britons boasted, came at length the great Empress Helena, who was the mother of Constantine. And it was Constantine, as all men know, who first nailed up that proclamation which all after generations have in truth been struggling either to protect or to tear down
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
- Jules Renard
A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black.
- Norman F Cantor
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
- George Carey
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
- Robert Caro
Fo' it be so clear to me now, with my family being black an white, that though we blacks have it very hard fo' very long, we don't own suffering. Abuse, slavery, injustice, an tribulation be part of human living. An if there be a question that be worth axing, rather than it be bout white or black, we might be wanting to ax how come it's always us humans who be suffering an be mean to one another. We might want a be axing that instead. From: Accidents of Birth Trilogy
- Christina Carson
I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
- Raymond Chandler
You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.
- Dan Chaon
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Philip Stanhope
One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end.
- Agatha Christie
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
- Anatoly Chubais
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
- Leonard Cohen
So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly.
'Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?' I asked her.
She laughed. 'You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?'
'Yeah,' I said. 'That would be nice.
- David Levithan
Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
- Rachel Cohn
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
- Hunter S Thompson
It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.
- Terry Pratchett
It had a very long pendulum,and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge,because it was the kind of deliberate annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life. It was the kind of sound that suggested very pointedly that in some hypothetical hourglass somewhere,another few grains of sand had dropped out form under you.
- Terry Pratchett
I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.
- Cy Coleman
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
- Shawn Colvin
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney Company
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
- Doug Coupland
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
- Tom Courtenay
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
- Sheryl Crow
You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.
- Tonya Hurley
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
- Roald Dahl
I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.
- Matt Damon
Where did you meet?" he pressed on.
I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. "I was out for a run."
"From who?"
I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.
Knox leaned forward. "I think we're both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?"
"With my grandma, every Sunday after church.
- Dannika Dark
Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
- Catherine Deneuve
I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
- Catherine Deneuve
I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
- William Devane
I should like to ask you: Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee seem days of very long ago?
Twenty years back, yes; at this time of my life, no. For as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of kind smoothings and preparings of the way...
- Charles Dickens
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
- Ani Difranco
Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of reality. Most monstrous pictures are put together but all the circumstances are so subtly interwoven the details so artistically harmonious in every minute respect as to defy human imitation. Such morbid dreams are always recollected for very long and produce strong impressions on the disordered and already excited organs of the dreamer.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
- Jenny Downham
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
- Lena Dunham
Did you ever get the feeling that you wanted to go,
But still had the feeling that you wanted to stay,
You knew it was right, wasn't wrong.
Still you knew you wouldn't be very long.
Go or stay, stay or go,
Start to go again and change your mind again.
It's hard to have the feeling that you wanted to go,
But still have the feeling that you wanted to stay.
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si, do.
I'll go.
I'll stay.
- Jimmy Durante
Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
- Maria Sharapova
You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder..., and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.
- Michael Ende
You can't leave your lifemate. One, he knows what you're thinking, and two, he can find you wherever you are. Besides, you can't be away from him for very longit's too uncomfortable, both physically and mentally.
- Christine Feehan
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
- Craig Ferguson
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
- Jasper Fforde
I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
- Albert Finney
I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
- Colin Firth
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
- Ian Fleming
Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
- Richard Ford
Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.
- Richard Ford
I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.
- George R R Martin
Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
- Martha Gellhorn
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
- Susan George
Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
- Susan George
Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.
- Alexi Giannoulias
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.
- Anna Godbersen
Don't you know? We're connected
by an invisible chain. It's very long, very
light. But also very strong. It can't rust.
Can't break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.
- Ellen Hopkins
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
- John Goodman
Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.
- Robert Goolrick
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.
- Adam Gopnik
I didn't write songs for a very long time.
- Martin Gore
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.
- Kenneth Grahame
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Toby had spent three years living in the East End of London, back when he was a student, an area that would have profited greatly from a heavily armed UN Peacekeeping force. Lacking the funds necessary to reach the more civilized areas of London, toby endured three very long years..
- Simon R Green
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
- Stephen Greenblatt
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
- Bede Griffiths
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
- G I Gurdjieff
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
- George Savile
I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
- Laurell K Hamilton
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very hot.
- Tom Stoppard
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
- Stephen Harper
If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.
- Skitch Henderson
He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.
- J K Rowling
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time, upset stomach?'
'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do so love knitting patterns.
- J K Rowling
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
- J K Rowling
he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and threw the other over the round-house, high up, so that their feet would not touch the ground. As when long-winged thrushes or doves get entangled in a snare... so the women's heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end. For a little while their feet twitched, but not for very long.
- Homer
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union. This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you."
"Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.
- Anthony Horowitz
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
- Bryce Dallas Howard
He then kissed her.
It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face.
"Why did you stop?" asked Tessa.
"I thought you might want to breathe," said Guy carefully.
"Breathe?" said Tessa, shocked. "I don't need to breathe when I'm with you.
- Eva Ibbotson
I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.
- Jason Isaacs
There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.
- Janet Jackson
I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
- Janet Jackson
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
- A J Jacobs
A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.
- Tove Jansson
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
- Guy Johnson
Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From Hair To Maternity. It would probly be a very long book. Whores did not produce as fast as rabbits.
- James Jones
Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
- Walid Jumblatt
I want to live for a very, very long time, but it's important that I take care of my body. When I am 851 years old, I don't want to look it. No, I want to look 158.
- Jarod Kintz
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
- Anish Kapoor
There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling to it as well - unlike for example the way a harpist would be: the whole act differing in a very fundamental sense. Although harpists are fine. There is nothing to be said against harpists by any means whatsoever.
- James Kelman
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
- Jon Krakauer
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
- Neil Labute
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
- Anne Lamott
I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions
- Reif Larsen
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.
- Erlend Loe
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
- Paul Lynde
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
- John Major
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
- David Mccullough
I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psychebut maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind....There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.
- Bill Mckibben
I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.
- Eva Mendes
I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.
- Debra Messing
It's an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to and accept you for what you are. I've been waiting, for what seems like a very long time, to get beyond what I am. With Bella I feel like I can finally begin. So I'd like to propose a toast to my beautiful bride. No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let's start with forever.
- Stephenie Meyer
It an extraordinary tin to meet someone you can bury your soul too, who accept you for what you are. I'av been waiting for a very long time to get beyond what I am with ''Bella'' I feel I can finally being. So I ill make a totz to my beautiful berried no measure of time with you will be to long effort with for ever.
- Stephenie Meyer
If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
- Wentworth Miller
it took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn't know, but there you had it.
"I'm not," he said for the umpteenth time, "a dog.
- C E Murphy
You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every opportunity. And that means when I'm with you, I am less than the head of this House...and I am more than the head of this House. I am a man." He stroked my cheeks with his thumbs. "In my very, very long life, I need you more than I have ever needed anything.
- Chloe Neill
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
- Ben Nicholson
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
- Ben Okri
Hey, I've been alive for a very, very long time. Boring," she sang out. "Gotta do something for kicks, and a good apocalypse every now and then fills the cracks. It's like the Super Bowl for us gods...but without the beer and everyone could die. Fun, right?
- Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
- Orhan Pamuk
I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
- Anna Paquin
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
- Murray Walker
You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
- Shel Silverstein
Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.
- Steven L Peck
There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
- Antonio Perez
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
- Elizabeth Peters
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
- Bill Watterson
It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.
- Martha Plimpton
It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.
- Agnieszka Radwanska
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
- Lynn Redgrave
Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.
- Anne Rice
Oh, my darling, wish you were here!
And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and
because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the
surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
- Anne Rice
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
- Mary Richards
I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.
- Mike Rogers
I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
- Portia De Rossi
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
- Josiah Royce
I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary and the audience feels it.
- Arthur Rubinstein
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
- Jane Rule
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
- Tim Ryan
Smiles that are meant to hide something never last very long, especially when the smile is hiding guilt (pg. 183).
- Amy Kathleen Ryan
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
- Joel Salatin
The sight made her ache. How can I not touch you? she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers on his wrist. He didn't jump or even look at her, just stopped writing. Neither one of them moved, nothing moved, and the whole thing lasted three or four seconds at most, but when Pen took her hand away and started to breathe again, her chest hurt, as though she had been holding her breath for a very long time.
- Marisa De Los Santos
I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart.
- Curt Schilling
Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
- Klaus Schulze
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
- Leah Ward Sears
Beyle's advice is not to purchase engravings of fine views and prospects seen on one's travels, since before very long they will displace our memories completly, ideed one might say they destroy them.
- W G Sebald
So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
- Yahoo Serious
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
- Tahir Shah
The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.
- Dan Simmons
You obviously haven't lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.
- Jeri Smith Ready
We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
- Kurtwood Smith
Helen's Saigon had always been about selling - chickens, information, or lovely young women, it didn't matter. It had once been called the Pearl of the Orient, but by people who had not been there in a very long time. Saigon had never been Paris, but now it was a garrison town, unlovely, a stinking refugee shantyville filled with the angry, the betrayed, the dispossessed, but she had made it her home, and she couldn't bear that soon she would have to leave.
- Tatjana Soli
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- Thomas Sowell
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
- Stephen Sprouse
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
- Gertrude Stein
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
- Gertrude Stein
It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had all the inn upon our hands, and were kept busy enough without paying much regard to our unpleasant guest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.
- Emma Stone
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
- Igor Stravinsky
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
- Jock Sturges
This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.
- Tabitha Suzuma
I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans
- Taylor Swift
Myths have a very long memory.
- Bryan Sykes
There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
- Scott Thompson
Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of
building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her wellshaped tuffetall forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the makebelieve.
- Rob Thurman
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
- Barry Took
I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.
- Rachel Vincent
- J R R Tolkien
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
- Edward Albee
...life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.
- Paulo Coelho
and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
- Jodi Picoult
The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
- Jodi Picoult
A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.
- Louisa May Alcott
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
- Brian Andreas
Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you.
- Brian Andreas
Mr Right:
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
- Brian Andreas
He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave beforejust indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.
- Patricia Briggs
I wish we had a donkey. The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys, Jane, Miss Bates, and me--and my caro sposo walking by. I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey. In a country life I conceive it to be a sort of necessary; for, let a woman have ever so many resources, it is not possible for her to be always shut up at home;--and very long walks, you know--in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt.
- Jane Austen
They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised.
- Sherman Austin
Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summer's day, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.
- Natalie Babbitt
One thing I won't be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don't like it, and I haven't bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I'm on. It's much easier.
- Scott Baio
Forever is a very long time Peter
- James M Barrie
The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.
- Mario Batali
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.
- Lemony Snicket
It makes me very sad at times to think about her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
- L M Montgomery
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
- L M Montgomery
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
- John Steinbeck
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
- Dirk Benedict
These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.
- Tom Berenger
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
- Buffalo Bill
Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.
- Drew Bledsoe
Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
- Robert Bloch
Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal
- William Shakespeare
i want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of doritos at a party
- Megan Boyle
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
- Lara Flynn Boyle
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
- David Brin
If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.
- Poppy Z Brite
I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.
- Jennifer Brown
I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.
- Alton Brown
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.
- Pearl S Buck
It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.
- Steve Burns
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.
- Emily Giffin
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
- Carly Fiorina
Who are you?' he asked suddenly.
I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.'
But I haven't got a brother,' objected Tommy.
It only shows how very long-lost I was,' replied his remarkable relative. 'But I assure you that, before they managed to long-loose me, I used to live in this house myself.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
... And the Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The Roman Empire necessarily became less Roman as it became more of an Empire; until not very long after Rome gave conquerors to Britain, Britain was giving emperors to Rome. Out of Britain, as the Britons boasted, came at length the great Empress Helena, who was the mother of Constantine. And it was Constantine, as all men know, who first nailed up that proclamation which all after generations have in truth been struggling either to protect or to tear down
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
- Jules Renard
A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black.
- Norman F Cantor
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
- George Carey
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
- Robert Caro
Fo' it be so clear to me now, with my family being black an white, that though we blacks have it very hard fo' very long, we don't own suffering. Abuse, slavery, injustice, an tribulation be part of human living. An if there be a question that be worth axing, rather than it be bout white or black, we might be wanting to ax how come it's always us humans who be suffering an be mean to one another. We might want a be axing that instead. From: Accidents of Birth Trilogy
- Christina Carson
I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
- Raymond Chandler
You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.
- Dan Chaon
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Philip Stanhope
One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end.
- Agatha Christie
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
- Anatoly Chubais
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
- Leonard Cohen
So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly.
'Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?' I asked her.
She laughed. 'You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?'
'Yeah,' I said. 'That would be nice.
- David Levithan
Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
- Rachel Cohn
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
- Hunter S Thompson
It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.
- Terry Pratchett
It had a very long pendulum,and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge,because it was the kind of deliberate annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life. It was the kind of sound that suggested very pointedly that in some hypothetical hourglass somewhere,another few grains of sand had dropped out form under you.
- Terry Pratchett
I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.
- Cy Coleman
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
- Shawn Colvin
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney Company
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
- Doug Coupland
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
- Tom Courtenay
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
- Sheryl Crow
You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.
- Tonya Hurley
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
- Roald Dahl
I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.
- Matt Damon
Where did you meet?" he pressed on.
I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. "I was out for a run."
"From who?"
I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.
Knox leaned forward. "I think we're both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?"
"With my grandma, every Sunday after church.
- Dannika Dark
Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
- Catherine Deneuve
I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
- Catherine Deneuve
I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
- William Devane
I should like to ask you: Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee seem days of very long ago?
Twenty years back, yes; at this time of my life, no. For as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of kind smoothings and preparings of the way...
- Charles Dickens
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
- Ani Difranco
Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of reality. Most monstrous pictures are put together but all the circumstances are so subtly interwoven the details so artistically harmonious in every minute respect as to defy human imitation. Such morbid dreams are always recollected for very long and produce strong impressions on the disordered and already excited organs of the dreamer.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
- Jenny Downham
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
- Lena Dunham
Did you ever get the feeling that you wanted to go,
But still had the feeling that you wanted to stay,
You knew it was right, wasn't wrong.
Still you knew you wouldn't be very long.
Go or stay, stay or go,
Start to go again and change your mind again.
It's hard to have the feeling that you wanted to go,
But still have the feeling that you wanted to stay.
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si, do.
I'll go.
I'll stay.
- Jimmy Durante
Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
- Maria Sharapova
You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder..., and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.
- Michael Ende
You can't leave your lifemate. One, he knows what you're thinking, and two, he can find you wherever you are. Besides, you can't be away from him for very longit's too uncomfortable, both physically and mentally.
- Christine Feehan
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
- Craig Ferguson
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
- Jasper Fforde
I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
- Albert Finney
I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
- Colin Firth
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
- Ian Fleming
Most things don't stay the way they are very long.
- Richard Ford
Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.
- Richard Ford
I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.
- George R R Martin
Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
- Martha Gellhorn
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
- Susan George
Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
- Susan George
Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.
- Alexi Giannoulias
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.
- Anna Godbersen
Don't you know? We're connected
by an invisible chain. It's very long, very
light. But also very strong. It can't rust.
Can't break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.
- Ellen Hopkins
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
- John Goodman
Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.
- Robert Goolrick
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.
- Adam Gopnik
I didn't write songs for a very long time.
- Martin Gore
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.
- Kenneth Grahame
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Toby had spent three years living in the East End of London, back when he was a student, an area that would have profited greatly from a heavily armed UN Peacekeeping force. Lacking the funds necessary to reach the more civilized areas of London, toby endured three very long years..
- Simon R Green
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
- Stephen Greenblatt
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
- Bede Griffiths
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
- G I Gurdjieff
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
- George Savile
I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
- Laurell K Hamilton
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very hot.
- Tom Stoppard
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
- Stephen Harper
If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.
- Skitch Henderson
He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.
- J K Rowling
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time, upset stomach?'
'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do so love knitting patterns.
- J K Rowling
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
- J K Rowling
he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and threw the other over the round-house, high up, so that their feet would not touch the ground. As when long-winged thrushes or doves get entangled in a snare... so the women's heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end. For a little while their feet twitched, but not for very long.
- Homer
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union. This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you."
"Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.
- Anthony Horowitz
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
- Bryce Dallas Howard
He then kissed her.
It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face.
"Why did you stop?" asked Tessa.
"I thought you might want to breathe," said Guy carefully.
"Breathe?" said Tessa, shocked. "I don't need to breathe when I'm with you.
- Eva Ibbotson
I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.
- Jason Isaacs
There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.
- Janet Jackson
I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
- Janet Jackson
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
- A J Jacobs
A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.
- Tove Jansson
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
- Guy Johnson
Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From Hair To Maternity. It would probly be a very long book. Whores did not produce as fast as rabbits.
- James Jones
Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
- Walid Jumblatt
I want to live for a very, very long time, but it's important that I take care of my body. When I am 851 years old, I don't want to look it. No, I want to look 158.
- Jarod Kintz
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
- Anish Kapoor
There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling to it as well - unlike for example the way a harpist would be: the whole act differing in a very fundamental sense. Although harpists are fine. There is nothing to be said against harpists by any means whatsoever.
- James Kelman
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
- Jon Krakauer
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
- Neil Labute
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
- Anne Lamott
I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions
- Reif Larsen
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.
- Erlend Loe
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
- Paul Lynde
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
- John Major
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
- David Mccullough
I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psychebut maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind....There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.
- Bill Mckibben
I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.
- Eva Mendes
I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.
- Debra Messing
It's an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to and accept you for what you are. I've been waiting, for what seems like a very long time, to get beyond what I am. With Bella I feel like I can finally begin. So I'd like to propose a toast to my beautiful bride. No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let's start with forever.
- Stephenie Meyer
It an extraordinary tin to meet someone you can bury your soul too, who accept you for what you are. I'av been waiting for a very long time to get beyond what I am with ''Bella'' I feel I can finally being. So I ill make a totz to my beautiful berried no measure of time with you will be to long effort with for ever.
- Stephenie Meyer
If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
- Wentworth Miller
it took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn't know, but there you had it.
"I'm not," he said for the umpteenth time, "a dog.
- C E Murphy
You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every opportunity. And that means when I'm with you, I am less than the head of this House...and I am more than the head of this House. I am a man." He stroked my cheeks with his thumbs. "In my very, very long life, I need you more than I have ever needed anything.
- Chloe Neill
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
- Ben Nicholson
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
- Ben Okri
Hey, I've been alive for a very, very long time. Boring," she sang out. "Gotta do something for kicks, and a good apocalypse every now and then fills the cracks. It's like the Super Bowl for us gods...but without the beer and everyone could die. Fun, right?
- Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
- Orhan Pamuk
I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
- Anna Paquin
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
- Murray Walker
You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
- Shel Silverstein
Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.
- Steven L Peck
There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
- Antonio Perez
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
- Elizabeth Peters
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
- Bill Watterson
It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.
- Martha Plimpton
It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.
- Agnieszka Radwanska
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
- Lynn Redgrave
Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.
- Anne Rice
Oh, my darling, wish you were here!
And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and
because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the
surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
- Anne Rice
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
- Mary Richards
I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.
- Mike Rogers
I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
- Portia De Rossi
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
- Josiah Royce
I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary and the audience feels it.
- Arthur Rubinstein
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
- Jane Rule
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
- Tim Ryan
Smiles that are meant to hide something never last very long, especially when the smile is hiding guilt (pg. 183).
- Amy Kathleen Ryan
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
- Joel Salatin
The sight made her ache. How can I not touch you? she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers on his wrist. He didn't jump or even look at her, just stopped writing. Neither one of them moved, nothing moved, and the whole thing lasted three or four seconds at most, but when Pen took her hand away and started to breathe again, her chest hurt, as though she had been holding her breath for a very long time.
- Marisa De Los Santos
I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart.
- Curt Schilling
Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
- Klaus Schulze
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
- Leah Ward Sears
Beyle's advice is not to purchase engravings of fine views and prospects seen on one's travels, since before very long they will displace our memories completly, ideed one might say they destroy them.
- W G Sebald
So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
- Yahoo Serious
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
- Tahir Shah
The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.
- Dan Simmons
You obviously haven't lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.
- Jeri Smith Ready
We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
- Kurtwood Smith
Helen's Saigon had always been about selling - chickens, information, or lovely young women, it didn't matter. It had once been called the Pearl of the Orient, but by people who had not been there in a very long time. Saigon had never been Paris, but now it was a garrison town, unlovely, a stinking refugee shantyville filled with the angry, the betrayed, the dispossessed, but she had made it her home, and she couldn't bear that soon she would have to leave.
- Tatjana Soli
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- Thomas Sowell
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
- Stephen Sprouse
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
- Gertrude Stein
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
- Gertrude Stein
It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had all the inn upon our hands, and were kept busy enough without paying much regard to our unpleasant guest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.
- Emma Stone
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
- Igor Stravinsky
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
- Jock Sturges
This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.
- Tabitha Suzuma
I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans
- Taylor Swift
Myths have a very long memory.
- Bryan Sykes
There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
- Scott Thompson
Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of
building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her wellshaped tuffetall forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the makebelieve.
- Rob Thurman
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
- Barry Took
I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.
- Rachel Vincent
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