Quotes with long-lived

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1310.

  • Willa Cather Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Bill Nye Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Brad Delson With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Plato Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
    Source: Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • George Orwell Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
    Buddy Ebsen
     
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  • John Jay Chapman You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Ben Wheatley You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Burt Shavitz You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Mae West You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Peggy Noonan You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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