“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.” ChildrenLongSoulWholeMomentsSeemsTimeNextWaitingBecomingSummerSurrenderChristmasLive In The MomentPresent TimeGrownupsHappy Day Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.” PeopleWorldLongTwoEarthNextAnswersNumbersWillingProtectEngagedVacationDozenExtinctionHomo SapiensArizonaDetoursMeteorsCraters Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.” PeopleWellsLongI CanEnoughLastsDiesNextMinutesAsking Author:George Burns
“I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.” IfsLongUsePurposeNextLaughingJokesMouthsSmokeTimingCigar Author:George Burns
“You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.” IfsKnowsLongTodayLife IsNextViewsWeekTomorrowLuckyNext WeekToday And Tomorrow Author:Garrison Keillor
“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.” MenWorldLifeLongCertainNextDyingIsolationTombsDesolateNightfall Book:Later Poems Source: Later Poems
“For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick.” KindLongShowsDreamWantedSchoolUsedNextTvsHigh SchoolSwimTv ShowsMy Best FriendKate Author:Summer Sanders
“Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.” LongRealityNextPoliticsSoundRealizingCommunityHoursHistoryComedyToo MuchTvsDirectorsThirtyHoneyDedicatedDocumentariesFranklinFourteenBoo BooHoney Boo Boo Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLongStillsCharacterStoriesEyeRunningNextActorsTvsSpeechSeriesEightPilotsWeird ThingsImpedimentsTv SeriesGagsFunny StorySpeech Impediment Author:William H. Macy
“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.” YearsLongRememberNextTermHalfCompanyShareMonthsSixYears AgoFundamentalsSellsInvestingLong TermShockFundDozenElsewhereEmployedSix MonthsRecommendations Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.” KnowsFeelsLittlesLongFormSufferingNextSunFlowerSpeechRainSeasonsTragedyMereSilentCalmBreatheDewHysteriaDo Not FearLife Or DeathPower Of Speech Author:Corra May Harris
“And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.” LongTwoNextPlansAdventureCivilizationSailingTwo DaysNauticalSailing And The SeaNext Adventure Book:Letters from the Lost Soul: A Five Year Voyage of Discovery and Adventure Source: Letters from the Lost Soul: A Five Year Voyage of Discovery and Adventure