Quotes of: Longs Keyword

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

Cities & Countries

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

The Diary of a Young Girl

Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe

Donkey Gospel

Is it possible for one to enter sleep and wander while never waking? And if so, for how long can one survive this way?

Descent

Art is long and life is short.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

The Ersatz Elevator

Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

Forgetting: impressions from the millennial borderland

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

The Forgotten Garden

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

The Flinch

I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Heroes Die

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

The Book of Disquiet

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

The Book of Bright Ideas

first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again

Book of Longing

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

The Book of Shadows

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

Frans de Waal

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Annie Dillard

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

James Balog

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

Josh Schwartz

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

Anthony Minghella

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

Simon Van Booy