I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.
The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.
