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Quotes About Long

If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word.
~ William Gibson
Zona spat a stream of Spanish that overwhelmed translation, a long and liquid curse.
~ William Gibson
It's the long finger of Big Night, the darkness that feeds the muttering damned to the gentle white maw of Wards.
~ William Gibson
the crashing of the games, his heart hammering. When the fear came, it was like some half-forgotten friend. Not the cold, rapid mechanism of the dex-paranoia, but simple animal fear. He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.
~ William Gibson
Oh, I don't know. Italy always seemed an awfully long way to go for fascism and olives." "I rather like olives." "Mother rather liked fascism. We had to burn all the photographs when war was declared." They
~ Chris Cleave
The word 'catastrophe' is not permitted as long as there is danger of catastrophe turning to doom.
~ Christa Wolf
If Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel could have existed in reality, it would have been something like the Long Room of Trinity College.
~ Christopher de Hamel
long, slow and painful recuperation of Republican history and memory
~ Helen Graham
The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!
~ Henri Michaux
God save our gracious king!Long live our noble king!God save the king!
~ Henry Carey
Will I ever meet someone That will take the bitter taste from my mouth? I am loneliness I wish I had someone to miss
~ Henry Rollins
There he goes, in his long russet surtout, sweeping down yonder gravel-walk, beneath the trees, like a yellow leaf in autumn wafted along by a fitful gust of wind.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the long, sleepless watches of the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the same mischievous smile lingered for a long time on her face as if it had been forgotten there.
~ Leo Tolstoy
need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw
~ Leonard Cohen
Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.
~ Leonid Andreyev
My soul?" replied Virginia. "I sold it a long time ago for a kilo of truffles.
~ Leonora Carrington
As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.
~ Leslie Newman
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
~ lessig lawrence ii
I'd already been using the Uber Eats app for a long time - and it's super simple to use. That's just what I look for when I go into partnerships. If something comes to me that I've never used before for a potential partnership, then it doesn't feel real or natural. This one is a match made in heaven.
~ Ninja
My best capacity is to edit. If anything, I am a specialist at editing: my usual approach is to record a song very long. In the beginning just jam, jam on and on. Then break the song and play with it.
~ Manu Chao
Two words: Kasim Sulton. I've been a Utopia fan for a long, long time, and Kasim's a pop hero of mine. I have to hold myself back from asking him a million Utopia questions.
~ Paul Gilbert
Many families are planning summer vacations and in Canada, camping is a very popular way to spend those long summer nights!
~ Hilary Farr