Long Quotes - Page 665

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.

Our industry is so technologically driven that often I Skype with directors or send tapes in to people. It's so common now that sometimes even when I'm here I'll be send tapes for things that are based in the U.K. There's never really a right place, right time anymore. Even something that's L.A. based, the director might be in New York or they might be on location in Budapest. I think everyone's really accepting of the fact that people are all over the world all the time. In a funny way, you can be an actor now and live anywhere, so long as you have internet.

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

I felt mocked. "That's what I get for trusting you." He took a step back. "Excuse me! Trust doesn't mean you get the response you want from someone, but that you'll get an honest response, and that the other person will stick by you even when you can't agree." Stick by you for how long, through how much? I wondered. What is the expiration date on trust?

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

I suppose I've been working for a long time, so I've seen all kinds of filmmaking. I can fit into anything, and it doesn't feel that weird or that fascinating.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.