- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.
- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money wasn't important to me. Once I discovered music, I was quite happy to live as a bum. As long as I had my music and my band, I was happy.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020