If you were to say to me that I couldn’t paint, I would write. If I couldn’t write, I would be a set designer. As long as I’m creating something, I’m happy. – Grace Slick
I’m not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I’m not sure we’re built that way. – Hugh Grant
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. – Howard Thurman
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade. – Henry Lawson
I think it’s fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it’s too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. – Henry Rollins
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. – George Bernard Shaw
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. – Howard Nemerov
Look, don’t congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it. – Henry Kravis
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy – enforced through the rights of the firstborn son – has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions. – Hanna Rosin
I was married a lot, but I didn’t stay married very long because I didn’t seem to be able to choose somebody that was a stable man. – Georgia Holt
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us. – Henry Rollins
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations. – Hjalmar Branting
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. – Henry David Thoreau
As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself. – Hjalmar Branting
But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state. – George Smathers
I think Bhutanese food – long dissed by every food writer out there – has gotten a bum rap. – Hanya Yanagihara
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. – Henry Van Dyke
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don’t paint badly like other people. – George Edward Moore
We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I’m sure a lot of bands are like, ‘I need my own space.’ But we don’t. I want to be with these guys forever. – Hillary Scott
Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can’t even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go. – Holly Black
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. – Hart Crane
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route. – Harriet Walter
I’d like to get more bit-acting roles. I don’t know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I’d kill it. – Hannibal Buress
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. – Hayden Christensen
