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.
You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.
The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.
Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
