Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
‐‐ Mario Andretti
Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'
‐‐ Jennifer Hudson
Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald
Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.
‐‐ Marissa Moss
Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
‐‐ Michael Horton
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
‐‐ Niger Innis
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
‐‐ Jay Baruchel
Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.
‐‐ James A. Moore
Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan
Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
‐‐ Danny Meyer
Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
‐‐ Francine Prose
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.
‐‐ Junot Diaz
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
‐‐ Joseph Rotblat
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
‐‐ Josiah Strong
Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.
‐‐ Robin Coste Lewis
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
‐‐ Hans-Georg Gadamer
Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.
‐‐ Shawn Amos
'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'
‐‐ Josh Turner
Long chiffon pleated skirts look great with sandals or sneakers and a tank top or denim top.
‐‐ Brad Goreski
Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens
Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.
‐‐ Alan Huffman
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
‐‐ Malcolm Lowry
Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.
‐‐ Jim Gerlach
Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
‐‐ Mallory Jansen
Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
‐‐ Morrissey
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
‐‐ Marge Piercy
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton
Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
‐‐ Miranda Lambert
Long Island has a great boxing tradition.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
‐‐ Robert Caro
Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
‐‐ Samuel L. Jackson
Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
‐‐ Karl Liebknecht
Long live the Republic, and long live France.
‐‐ Francois Hollande
Long live the Unity of Latin America.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez
Long live your laundry!
‐‐ Billy Mays
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
‐‐ Aristotle
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland
Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.
‐‐ Brownie McGhee
Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
‐‐ Paul Johnson
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
‐‐ Eddie Rickenbacker
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland