Quotes of: Long-period Keyword

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

The Long Goodbye

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [ ; November 16, 1857]

Letters to Various Persons

If you haven't walked in someone else's shoes, it's difficult to know the fit, so be kind and compassionate.

The Long Spring

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

The Long Walk

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

Little Women

Keep following your dreams even if you get off course.

A Long Way from You

Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

The Storyteller

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.

One Long Thread

If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.

One Long Thread

Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.

One Long Thread

For a long time, my subconscious rested in a dark place, ticking through memories like a jukebox selecting a record...

The Pull

People called me 'Slim' and 'Daddy Long Legs.' My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!

Shelley Hennig

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

Natalie Maines

If there were two enemies hating each other for a long time, to me, the winner would be the one who finally has the courage to forgive.

Primadonna Angela

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

Patton Oswalt

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Paul Theroux

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.

Robert Irwin