Quotes about Long
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
— Oscar Wilde
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
— Mike Huckabee
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.
— Euripides
Imagine that the telegraph is an immense long dog — so long that its head is at Vienna and its tail is at Paris. Well, tread on its tail, which is at Paris, and it will bark at Vienna.
— Anonymous
And what have they created?" Taraza asked. "Only the image of evil stupidity?" "Act stupid long enough and you become stupid
— Frank Herbert
Lords of melody and song, Lords of roses burning bright, Blue will right the ancient wrong, Though the way is dark and long, Blue will shine with loving light.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Send home my long strayed eyes to me,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
— John Donne
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
— John Keats
I won't have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, 'Now settle down and do a long work, since you have shown the public that you can produce beautiful short poetry.' And their implication tells me that making two verses or a short poem does not satisfy their concept of what an accomplished poet should be able to do. Bulk they want, as evidence of a man's power.
— Robert Frost
For the vacant nest and silent song, Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; Whispering, Winter will not linger long!
— Emily Bronte
Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.
— Epictetus
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.
— JRR Tolkien