Long Way Quotes - Page 15

• Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

  Bill Lipinski

  Bridges, Long, Gaps

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• As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Long, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It feels a long way up and down from zero.

  May Sarton

  Zero, Long, Way

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.248, Open Road Media

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• Determination gets you a long way.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Determination, Long, Way

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• If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Long, People

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• So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.

  Marian McPartland

  Long, Sound, Fax

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Travel, Holiday, Long Ago

  Song: Holiday Road

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• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Humble, Law

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Long, Democracy, Principles

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dirty, Home, Wind Blowing

  Song: Devils and Dust, Album: Devils & Dust, 2005

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• That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

  A. A. Milne

  Past, Two, Bye

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Two, Feet

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• There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

  Ed Greenwood

  Two, Long, Earth

  Ed Greenwood (2011). “Elminster: Making of a Mage”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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• I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Long, Wizards

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• Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.

  Devon Monk

  Lunch, Long, Way

  Devon Monk (2008). “Magic to the Bone”, p.58, Penguin

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• Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

  Dean Koontz

  Adventure, Long, Littles

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.14, Bantam

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• With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Long, Wish

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

  Michelle Shocked

  Inspirational, Life, Long

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• If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Believe, Compassion

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama (2010). “The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Long, Marketing, Quality

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.77, 谷月社

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• I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Cities, Long, Fads

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• Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself

  Anne Hathaway

  Clothes, Long, Scent

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• I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Thinking, Light

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

  Darren Criss

  Mom, Long, Way

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