#long

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#doubts #freak #frightened #further #had

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #attained #away #been #body

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #growing-older #life #living-longer #age

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#i #i can #joy #longer #me

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ↗

— Don Marquis

#anyone #enough #get #interesting #live

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend. ↗

— Obie Trice

#eminem #friend #good #good friend #him

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#age #chivalry #dead #earth #left

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too. ↗

— Joyce DeWitt

#big star #i #just #long #maclaine