- Black
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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
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media, and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.
- Comic Strip
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it.
- Sweet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020