- Feet
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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
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
- Distances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My plan was to stay with 'Game of Thrones' for the long haul. That was always my plan. I would have loved to.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020