It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness.
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.
Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.
I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.
If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it. " It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives.
Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.
My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line. ' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?
If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.
Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.