A week is a long time in the life of a child.
I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.
As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.
I've been blessed to have a long career.
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.
I gave up shame a long time ago.
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
I didn't write songs for a very long time.
I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
Four years is a long time in politics.
Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do," Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?
As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.
Walter Burns: Well well... how long is it? Hildy Johnson: How long is what? Walter Burns: You know what... how long is it since we've seen each other?
Lone Watie: We thought about it for a long time, "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.
People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that wa...