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Long Words Quotes & Sayings

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When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words. — Dejan Stojanovic

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much. — Charlotte Bronte

Charlie?" he said, pulling mme back to face him. "I do love you." My breath caught on his words ... words I'd waited so long to hear. — Kimberly Derting

You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me. — Julie Anne Long

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record. — Jason Calacanis

Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem. — Timothy Long

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic. — Tess Gerritsen

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. — Joseph Joubert

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words. — Zach Condon

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned? — Russell Baker

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. — Liu Xiaobo

I love words," said Livvie. "I have always loved and respected words ... since a long time ago. — Susan Trott

I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it. — Tina J. Richardson

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. — Norton Juster

When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him. — A.A. Milne

Hey, Blue Bird." His voice was lower, his words raspier than before. "Sorry it took me so long to make it back. — Nicole Williams

Long live the dreamer inside of me. — Nikki Rowe

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. — Wole Soyinka

He'd wanted me to believe in his ruthlessness.
Then I remembered his words from so long ago: Make me your villain. — Leigh Bardugo

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. — John Hookham Frere

May all your problems be fictional and of your own devising, and may it be a very long time until you come to pen the words 'the end'. — The Detection Club

For so delicious were the words she sung,it seem'd he had loved them a whole summer long. — John Keats

Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page. — Jacqueline Winspear

That's the first thing you said to me. I was just wondering why you're here. My seven words, I've been wondering the same thing for so long. — Patrick Rothfuss

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. — Freya Stark

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. — C.S. Lewis

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. — Jack Kerouac

Close your mouth, Nicole! You may never speak words again for as long as you live! — Jennifer DeLucy

After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne. — Catherynne M Valente

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. — Carlos Fuentes

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them? — John Locke

As long as you can breathe, you can begin to dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view. — Charlie Munger

How strange and ironic it is-
all the words i long to say
are lost in words. — Sanober Khan

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. — Marguerite Duras

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force. — Henry Watson Fowler

As long as there are movement and harmony, there are words. — Shannon Hale

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words. — Edward O. Wilson

I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple. — Dan Mathews

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. — Shirley Jackson

We hear strong opinions from arrogant people all day long. We need to cleanse our minds by reminding each other of God's actual words. — Francis Chan

And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy. — Pablo Neruda

When harsh words cut you down and open long-forgotten wounds,may you, beloved daughter of a King,stand tall in your dignity and worth. — Joan Campbell

I hope it won't take long. — Enrico Fermi

Every long travel changes man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The road home is a long one. As I walk this road, I recall my grandmother's words: Everyone has a past life, a future life and a present life. — Xiaolu Guo

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. — Norton Juster

It's more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long difficult words but rather short easy words like What about lunch?" - Winnie-the-Pooh — Tony Hsieh

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time. — Peter Abrahams

Juliana was momentarily at a loss for words, a strange condition for her. It didn't last long. — Cindy Anstey

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. — G.K. Chesterton

The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message. — Bram Stoker

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way. — Patrice Leconte

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. — Douglas Coupland

Nothing ever ends...

Just three words long — Rainbow Rowell

No wise man will wish to bring more long words into the world. But — G.K. Chesterton

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. — Virginia Woolf

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch? — A.A. Milne

So often it is words or pictures that first tell us what we long for. — Cornelia Funke

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words. — Esther Hicks

Never is a long word. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. — E.B. White

The poet I saw once ...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles ... — Nathalie Handal

My voice cut into the silence. The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away. — Jojo Moyes

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard. — Randy Pausch

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't. — Alexander McQueen

There were lots of words which had fallen out of my vocabulary, living abroad so long. — Henry Miller

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes words were useless. It was the deed that would be remembered, anyway, long after the words had faded into the wind. — L. Joseph Shosty

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words? — Marty Rubin

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up. — Molly Shannon

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? — Martin Freeman

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. — Ugo Betti

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition. — Paul McCartney

Words are worn wisdom but thats not always fashionable... J — Jean Long

If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could? — Lauren Wolk

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. — Tom Watson

Just three words long — Rainbow Rowell

Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones. — Jeff Anderson

The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend — Edwin McCain

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. — Jason E. Hodges

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten. — John C. Maxwell

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May. — Jimmy Hill

Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. 'God.' 'Science.' Meaning. — Mark Frost

For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words. — Karen Kingsbury

A word of encouragement goes a long way. — Ashley Ormon

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over. — Jonathan Safran Foer

He turned it and turned it. They could see quite clearly in the fine tracery of its etchwork the words So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. — Douglas Adams

I wonder why he shot me ? — Huey Long

Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long. — Richelle E. Goodrich

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. — George Berkeley

This time it will be a long one. — Georges Clemenceau

Marriage is a long-lasting friendship. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gortrek gave him a look. 'Never get into a war of words with a poet, Ironbreaker. You can't win. — Nathan Long

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! — Emma Watson

but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not. — John Williams

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university. — Ken Scott

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time. — Franz Wright

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. — Hermann Weyl