Quotes with long-shot

Quotes 461 till 480 of 1204.

  • A. J. Liebling If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Bill Laswell If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Bob Newhart If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
    Saint Joan (1924)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hans Selye If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Billy Campbell If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Kurtis If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Carolyn Maloney In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bjarke Ingels In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Alejandro Amenabar In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Harold Wilson In politics a week is a very long time.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Brion James In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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