L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.”
“Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.”
“Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.”
“Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.”
“Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.”
“Long gone was the girl who'd planned to be a marine biologist for the sake of discovering why she was so different. Today, I stood before the love of my life, ready to make an incredible journey with him through this thing called life. And goddess, he was strikingly gorgeous.”
Source: The Forever Queen
“Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.”
“Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.”
“Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.”
Source: Braided Lives
“Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.”
“Long hair will send you to hell!”
Source: Hetalia: Axis Powers, Vol. 2
“Long hair, short skirts, the girls like this image and try to make money with it. What they wear, how they behave, it's all part of the business. Television and advertising have changed a great many things. In the old days, we used to make our money on the course. Now your market value is decided elsewhere.”
“Long handwritten note deep in our pockets
Words, how little they mean when we're a little too late
I stood right by the tracks, your face in my head
Good girls, hopeful they'll be and long they will wait
In dreams I meet you in warm conversation
We both wake in lonely beds, different cities
And time is taking its sweet time erasing you
And you've got your demons, and, darling, they all look like me
Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting
Silence, the train runs off its tracks
Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen?
Hang up, give up and for the life of us we can't get back
A beautiful magic love there
What a sad beautiful tragic, beautiful tragic, beautiful love affair”
“Long has been this road called life. Every time you venture out in this road, remember. Home is within. Home is in you.”
“Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.”
“Long have I dwelt forgotten here
In pining woe and dull despair;
This place of solitude and gloom
Must be my dungeon and my tomb.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems
“Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Long hours
trail in their purple
and long years are lost
in just this moment
while our souls are near,
our mouths separate.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.”
“Long I have known and feared this day would come. Like the circle of Earth, the circle of life is changing. Here in the north, there are those who can still feel, see, and smell the changes wrought in and around Earth by Money Chiefs. The air is no longer clean, winter grows warmer, rivers flood without a sign, and the soil, once dark and rich, lies pale and weak. Bears, wolves, and other forest Spirits will soon go the way of the buffalo, for their food dwindles like birds that once ruled the skies.”
Source: Rella Two Trees - The Money Chiefs
“Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles or to new methods, are of quite a different order from those which are necessary for their practical application.”
Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).
“Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?”
“Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.”
“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“Long is the road from conception to completion.”
“Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.”
“Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”
“Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.”
“Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a lot to do in Long Island..." but you know what, if Jim Gaffigan was here, tickets would be gone a month ago, if Chelsea Handler was at the Barclays Center, gone.”
“Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.”
“Long jesting was never good.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think Art Bell thought there was a spot to be filled. He was doing exactly the same thing.”
“Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits... Never got a dinner!”
“Long John would sometimes hold his interviews in the Carnegie Delicatessen, which is the most famous delicatessen in New York up by Carnegie. Let's see, 57th Street, you're down to like 50th Street and 7th Avenue... You'd go in there and everybody would be eating a heart attack on a plate, pastrami, malts, that kind of stuff. But it literally was the place where Woody Allen would go.”
“long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.”
“Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.”
“Long Learn For Long Run”
“Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.”
“Long life is good, but a healthy life with a long lifespan is the best. A healthy long life is not made possible by only wishing for it. It must be inculcated as a way of life with the right attitude and a conscious effort against one’s unhealthy lifestyle and habits. It is wise to start as soon as possible. Now! Today!”
Source: Higher Science of Longevity
“Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.”
“Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Long light and there’s something in the air. Frog-song and bug-song in the air. Honeysuckle in the air. Dew in the air and beading on the tips of petal tongues.”
Source: Summer Solstice: An Essay
“Long-limbed creatures like shards of ice given form stalked past, tall enough to plant the cobalt-and-silver banners atop various tents; wagons were hauled by sure-footed reindeer and lumbering white bears in ornate armour, some so keenly aware when they ambled by that I wouldn't have been surprised if they could talk. White foxes scuttled about underfoot, bearing what looked to be messages strapped to their little embroidered vests.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Long live all us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise”
“Long live eternal Germany!”
“Long live free France.”
“Long live free Quebec!”
“Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962
“Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.”