If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
dropped and falling from such heights for so long that maybe I will have enough time to learn flying
They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
