Long Quotes - Page 464

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say "Oh, OK, done it, got it." It just doesn't happen. And that's true of any creative endeavor. For me, it's just a lifelong interest. I'm very much interested in the craft. I started by doing plays and it took me a long time to feel comfortable doing movies, working with cameras. I felt like I was a theater actress pretending that I was a movie actress for quite a while. Now, I just love the process of working with cameras and being on a set and trying to put a film together.

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

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.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.