I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.
Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run.
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
The world has waited long enough for you to cultivate your brilliance, all there is left for you to do is walk outside and mirror the sun.
Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings?
As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
