"If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long."
Read quote
3 likes
Long quotes
Long
17.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Long
Browse quotes that often appear alongside long — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Long quotes (page 197 of 873)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink."
Read quote
3 likes
"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."
Read quote
3 likes
"Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance."
Read quote
3 likes
"I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger."
Read quote
3 likes
"Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh."
Read quote
3 likes
"I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another."
Read quote
3 likes
"Life is very long, when you're lonely."
Read quote
3 likes
"Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV."
Read quote
3 likes
"Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time."
Read quote
3 likes
"The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff."
Read quote
3 likes
"The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time."
Read quote
3 likes
"I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid."
Read quote
3 likes
"Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure."
Read quote
3 likes
"For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system."
Read quote
3 likes
"We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line."
Read quote
3 likes
"A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back."
Read quote
3 likes
"I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi."
Read quote
3 likes
"As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)"
Read quote
3 likes
"A long way of saying I've seen a lot of kind of more systemic and processed changes. Although we still are providing the kind of material you're still seeing out there now."
Read quote
3 likes