Long Quotes - Page 689

So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.

You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.

Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.

Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.

There was a long period of time when Sam Fuller had a lot of projects fall through and had a lot of difficulties getting a project off the ground. And I was able to observe him during that period, and see his incredible resiliency and courage as he faced this difficulty and just kept working.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

You talk as long as you are listened to.

It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From around 2 or 3, the pretty ones already know how and why they get attention. And how quickly they learn to play it. Use it. And how quickly the rest of us figure out we don't have it.