“I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.” LongHardJobsUsedCrazyGoes OnEasierLong TimeHundredQuestsAuditionsGalaxy Author:Missi Pyle
“When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongMomentsSeemsLastsTimeHoursInternetLong TimeHundredYears AgoConstantPhonesContactUnitsMobileTime PassesMobile PhonesUpdatesTrivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.” IfsYearsMayLongStillsAgePleasureStudyCenturyCivilizationThousandLong TimeHundredUnityThousand YearsGeologyExtending Book:The Philosophy of Josiah Royce Source: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce
“My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.” IfsWayNeedsLongEndsStoriesBornSilenceHonestGoodnessLong TimeHundredYeahBoardsMy SisterCentsAwkwardBatsLong Time AgoRetardedRetardLengthy Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been considered different areas of inquiry, and now we're starting to go back to the idea that maybe they aren't two separate realms of inquiry.” YearsLongTwoIdeasDifferentPhilosophyLastsLong TimeHundredAreasStartingRealmsInquiryContinuumScience And Philosophy Author:Brad Warner
“You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a hundred times the size! Russia's not doing all that badly. The public there - not everybody - but they have things that the West offered, [that] were only available in the West a long time ago.” PeopleKnowsLongTodayNaturalMillionsLandMassLong TimeHundredResourcesWestSizeAvailableRussiaJapanLong Time AgoNatural Resources Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.” LongLong TimeHundredShoesObsessionObsessedPairsCollectingPair Of Shoes Author:Christian Louboutin
“I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.” WellsLongHoursGoneWeekMinutesThousandTenSixLong TimeHundredSevenEightSecondsSixtyEightySeven Days Book:Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra Source: Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra
“Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right?” YearsLongEnoughImagineImpossibleSixLong TimeHundredDirtyClosetsEnough TimeSkeletonsRacksMetaphorical Author:Alyson Noel
“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time” ThinkingWayYearsLongLong TimeHundredMilesLong WayEnglishmen Author:Diana Gabaldon