#long

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

#feel #felt #loyalty #really #sense

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#longer #murder #people #sentence #served

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#bore #changing #conscious #could #different

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there? ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#add #along #already #exit #how

The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago. ↗

— Natalie Gulbis

#event #first #i #longs #played

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. ↗

— James Gunn

#encompass #human #human life #ideas #life

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#continually #even #half #hour #long

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faithful #last #longer #lost #never