Quotes with long-lived

Quotes 281 till 300 of 1310.

  • John Updike Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
    - +
     0
  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Herbert Kaufman Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
    - +
     0
  • Bode Miller Fame is almost a poison. I couldn't care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • Marilyn Monroe Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
    - +
     0
  • Brian K. Vaughan Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
    - +
     0
  • A. E. Housman Far in a western brookland
    That bred me long ago
    The poplars stand and tremble
    By pools I used to know.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 52, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • George Eliot Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carl Sagan For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Bradley For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Seger For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Butch Trucks For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Keller For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Amy Lowell For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Barr For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • Lord George Byron For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
    - +
     0
  • Betsy Brandt For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
    - +
     0
All long-lived famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 15)