Long Quotes - Page 11

• No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Luxury, Shadow

  John Keats (1818). "Endymion: A Poetic Romance", p.43

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• I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sueño, Noche, Gente

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• I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Speak English, Accents

  1938 After1903-What?

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• Es fácil creer que la vida es larga y que los dones de cada uno son inmensos... fácil al principio, claro. Pero los límites de la vida se hacen cada vez más evidentes; queda claro que las grandes obras se pueden hacer pocas veces, si es que se hacen.

  Alfred Adler

  Believe, Done, Limits

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• Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, Thinking, Numbers

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Wise, Fate, Past

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• Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Issues, Today

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• It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs.

  Calvin Harris

  Team, Ethos, Design

  "Calvin Harris' amazing transformation from geek to million dollar DJ" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. December 17, 2014.

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• I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

  Joan Collins

  Crush, Baby, Men

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• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Taken, New Testament, Norm

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.382, A&C Black

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• What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

  Russell Baker

  Fall, Ears, May

  Russell Baker (1992). "El almanaque del pobre Russell"

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• When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

  Andy Warhol

  Correr, Gente, Interesante

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wind, Earth, Lasts

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatoria, Song XI, 100, 1321.

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• I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Pride, Rights, Democracy

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• Algunos nacen en su lugar, otros lo encuentran, otros se dan cuenta tras una larga búsqueda de que el lugar que dejaron es el que han estado buscando.

  Wallace Stegner

  Realizing, Born, Has Beens

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• You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Moving, Games, Play

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• Los Rolling Stones tienen algo elegantemente siniestro. Se sientan ante ti en una rueda de prensa como cinco navajas que se despliegan; sus rostros forman gruñidos ensayados; su pelo está despeinado y enmarañado; sus ropas forman parte de una presunción privada; y la forma en que caminan y hablan y las canciones que cantan forman parte de un largo y mezquino ataque a la yugular.

  Pete Hamill

  Canción, Media, Pelo

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• Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Responsibility, World, Lifetime

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.213, Penguin

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• There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

  Alan Greenspan

  Choices, Gone, Easy

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• It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

  Antón Chéjov

  Champagne, Long Time

  Anton Chekhov (2007). “The Complete Plays”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Forever, Enough, Being True

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “The Truth: Stage Adaptation”, p.125, A&C Black

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• All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Religion, Miserable

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• I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Creer, Pasado, Pensar

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Intelligent, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1978). "Los escritos de un salvaje", Viking Adultos

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