Quotes About Long

THE PARENTS HAD been close in college but hadn't gotten together as a group since then. Until they picked this season for their offensively long reunion. One had been heard to say: "Our last hurrah." It sounded like bad acting in a stupid play. Another one non-joked, "After this, we'll see each other next at someone's funeral." None of them cracked a smile.

Folly, however, has long been in the habit of taking a fancy to other people's houses, and once she's taken up residence, she's almost impossible to shift.

In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

On the cities of Venice and Varanasi] Everywhere you look there is evidence of the enchantment of decay, of a kind of beauty that can only be revealed by a long, slow fading.

Arturo says, "There follows, I am sad to say, a very long ride on a very slow road…to your final place of rest." He sighs, for he has spoken the truth for all men. Less understands: he has been assigned a poet.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis n. [mass noun] an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.

When we stopped to eat in the midday, she spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time.

Experience has long shown this method to be so distinct as to obviate confusion, and so comprehensive as to prevent any inconvenient omissions.

But I have no patience with you, sinner as you are against light, and better knowlege! and derider of the infirmities, not of old maids, but of old age! — Don't you hope to live long, yourself?

She shook her head. Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you. You said the other day life was long, I shot back. Which is it? It's both, she said, shrugging. It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.

Life was very short, literally. But now that I'm better, it seems so long I have to squint to see even the edges of it. It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

Then, Kristy continued,nodding at her,life was very short,literally.But now that I'm better,it seems so long I have to squint to see even the edges of it. It's all in the view,Macy.That's what I mean about forever,too.For any one of us our forever could end in an hour,or a hundred years from now.You can never know for sure,so you'd better make every second count.

It's been a long night. Aren't they all.

It's been a long night. Aren't they all.

Wait," Dracul says. "You must listen carefully to my instructions." Now he's giving instructions? He had the whole long walk to give us instructions!

Personally, I am too vindictively American, too full of hate for the hateful aspects of this country, and too possessed by the things I love here to be too long away. —RALPH ELLISON

I was beginning to think that my bag was lost when I saw it wobbling, solitary, on the long, long line of rollers. It came towards me like an uncorseted woman sauntering over cobblestones.

Not that long disease, my life, but that long convalescence, my life. The liberal-bourgeois revision, the illusion of improvement, the poison of hope.

I don't have bionic arms, and I have absolutely no stamina. Once I rubbed out the penciled-in marginalia of a hundred pages of a book that I wanted to photocopy (long story) and afterwards it felt like I'd been wanking off a giant for a hundred years.

It's just been a long week, that's all. It's monday night, Jess. My point exactly.

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse? Morgan sighed again. The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out. She shrugged. I thought I'd be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway? Lace looked at me sidelong. You were where? I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. I, uh, hadn't been in the city...very long. I didn't know.

Ah, bu bo?luk! Gö?sümdeki bu korkunç bo?luk! Yaln?zca bir kez, yaln?zca bir kez yüre?ime bast?rabilsem onu. — Bu bo?lu?un doldurulabilece?ini dü?ünüyorum ço?u zaman.

It was sunny, with the special light of an autumn afternoon, when everything casts such dark and long shadows that the earth, and all that was standing on it, looked as if it was slipping towards the sun.