Best Long Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.”

Long War Stars Long Time Our Future Far Away Galaxy Long Time Ago

“I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.”

Knows Needs Long Shows Age Sound Path Come Up New Age Stay True

Author:Jane Lynch

“For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.”

Long Ideas Mother Father Given Hurt Great Gifts Hurting Someone

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her. But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?”

Kind Long Realizing Long Time Worth It Not Worth It

Author:Logan Lerman

“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Made Film Watches Growing Up Growing Long Time My Friends Towns Classic Best Times Best Family Friends Growing Up

Author:Logan Lerman

“Technology has come a long way since PayPal.”

Way Long Technology Long Way Paypal

Author:Max Levchin

“I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.”

Needs Feels Long I Can Like Something

Author:Laura Marling

“I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.”

People Long Accepting Roles Willing Blessed Accept Me

Author:Mandy Moore

“I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.”

Writing Children Long Wanted Waiting Support Long Time Most Wanted

Author:Margaret Mahy

“So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.”

Way Long Sound Week Mail Long Way Fax

Author:Marian McPartland

“As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.”

Long Stills I Can My Own

Author:Marian McPartland

“I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.”

People Ifs Thinking Long Ideas Next Actors Knowing Conditions Insecurity Stability Not Knowing Going To Work Continuity

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.”

Long Process Casting

Author:Jodie Foster

“Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Plans Figures Despair Long Time Yeah My Way Supposed To Be

Author:Melissa Manchester

“It's been so long since I was in a real fight.”

Long Real Fighting

Author:Method Man

“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”

Ifs Years Long Five Lucky Band Average Five Years Life Span Average Life

Author:Mike McCready

“Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.”

Long Known Long Time Roger

Author:Mindy McCready

“When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.”

Long Art Stills Father Sculpture Inclination

Author:Moses Mendelssohn

“People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.”

People Long Literature Interest Share Havens These Days

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?”

Ifs Knows Kind Long Artist Touring You Like It

Author:Paul McDonald

“Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.”

Years Long Has Beens Nice Series Working It Vacation Looking For Work Long Vacation

Author:Rob Mariano

“The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.”

Giving Firsts Long Reason Attention Rich Influence Couple Politician Long Time Lots Of Money Broadcasters

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.”

Long Term Four Periods Long Term Long Periods Of Time

Author:Rose McGowan

“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”

Knows Should Long Eye Actors Lines Boys Know How Members Long Time Shots Cameras Handle Crew Electrician

Author:Jodie Foster

“I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.”

Knows Want Mean Long Has Beens

Author:Tim McGraw

“I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.”

Ifs Want Long Made Artist Found Millions Audience Legs Grudge Spawn Long Legs Beautiful Legs

Author:Todd McFarlane

“With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.”

Feels Long Film Girl Tvs Really Long

Author:Zosia Mamet

“Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.”

People Way Long Has Beens Use Past Purpose Order Passion Emotion Modern Long Time Glory Purity Phenomenon Fundamentalism Oppressed Evoke Islamists

Author:Azar Nafisi

“So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.”

Feels Long I Can Can Do Fine

Author:Dave Navarro

“I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.”

People Long Country Whole Song Sound Long Time Pops Labels Long Time Ago Gave Up Pop Song

Author:David Nail

“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

Kind Long Art Film Artist Leader Generations Poet Painter Performing Novelists Makers San Francisco Playwright Nurturing Innovators Sculptors Performing Arts Performing Artist

Author:Gavin Newsom

“Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.”

Men Years Long White Higher Benefits Currents Checks Receiving Expectancy Latina Life Expectancy

Author:Grace Napolitano

“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.”

Writing Firsts Long Art Done Enough Song Painting Long Time Pursue Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Jason Newsted

“I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.”

Thinking Long Artist Please

Author:Joe Nichols

“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

Mind Long Play Character Guy Father Given Changed Lovers Illusion Wide Range Villain Cop Bad Guys

Author:Navid Negahban

“This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.”

Long Dark Environment Possibility Winter Academic Bothered Edinburgh Advisable

Author:Paul Nurse

“A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.”

Way Long Humility Long Way Dose Way In Life

Author:Ron Fournier

“Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.”

Long Struggle Achievement Highest Titles Fallen Awards Life Struggle

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.”

Men Years Mind Long Has Beens Body Concepts Victim Notion Motherhood Traditional Legacy Mind And Body Chastity Long Legs

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.”

Trying Years Long I Can Feelings Body Natural Careers Late Feel Good Get Better Best Year

Author:David Ortiz

“Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.”

Years Long Said Hard America Views Optimism Cycles Pessimism Realism

Author:Ron Fournier

“As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.”

Thinking Knows Long Feet Fine Right Place

Author:Jack Osbourne

“If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.”

Ifs Long Wanted America Term Radical Long Term Sugar Salt Radical Change

Author:Jamie Oliver

“In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.”

Long Opinion Mouths England

Author:Jamie Oliver

“We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.”

Way Long Stills Jobs Moving Growth President Happened Months President Obama Long Way Private Sector Right Direction Moving In Long Way To Go Job Growth Moving In The Right Direction

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.”

Long Faces Social Term Security Long Term Social Security Deficit

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.”

Feels Firsts Long Country Brain Growing Happened Projects Long Time First Time Educational Educated Improving 1960s Drains Brain Drain

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.”

Long Film Difficult Gone Too Much Boards Canada Topics Funding Approved Paperwork

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

Way Years Long Stories Wanted Mother Desire Black White Changed Pages Hundred Decided Eight Screens Pounds Short Story Black And White Never Change Goats Paragraph Laptops

Author:Tea Obreht

“As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.”

Ifs Long Important Enough Important Things

Author:Jared Polis

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