Long Quotes

22418 quotes by 10256 authors

Talent is long patience. — Gustave Flaubert
It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up. — Jacqueline Briskin
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be… — Arthur C. Clarke
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped… — Ernest Hemingway
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE. — Kanye West
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow. — Margaret Atwood
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. — Martin Amis
It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love… — Mariah Carey
If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long! — Zig Ziglar
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting… — Richard L. Evans
A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long… — Robert Spencer
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?… — C.S. Lewis
It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to… — Barack Obama
Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed… — Grigory Zinoviev
Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary… — Unknown Author
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or… — George Bernard Shaw

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