Top 1200 Long List Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

I have a long list of filmmakers I want to work with. But I have also always had this touch of reality, that if it doesn't happen, it's okay.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.

What if, along with our 'to do' list, we had a 'to be' list too?

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.

I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known only by collectors, and finally a rediscovered artist who is finally recognized as a creative giant misunderstood in his own time. Then forgotten again. But if I get removed from the list, it'll probably be because there are just too many damn good writers out there, and any poll of some assortment of editors is going to come up with an equally valid, equally varied list.

I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Things like putting around a list and having your name on a list that objectifies you, that's a big deal, and it can have big consequences.

With Tottenham's Mousa Dembele, there is a long list of reasons why he is an opponent I would hate to face.

When I went through my confirmation hearing to serve as surgeon general they asked me what my priorities would be and I didn't list loneliness in that priority list because it was not one at the time.

Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

I'm known for having a very small to-do list and a big don't-do list.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.

One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said, "Yeah sure, I support this." What artist wouldn't support that? What's the big deal? But then people wrote to me, "Wow! You're on that list!" And I'm like, "Who isn't on that list?" That would be more shocking.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what’s not on the list? Sane.

I want to be able to pick up a list of names of graduates from high schools and colleges in the city and to see that that list is longer than it was when I started in 2009.

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to anyone who serves honourably. I think it's despicable that a president would put veterans on his website and list them on an enemies list.

Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.

One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections.

I tip my hat to the long list of girls that have really taken wrestling up a notch.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

It's a great feeling to know that, through my hard work, I am adding to a long list of accomplishments for Latinas in the United States.

As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities.

Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the list of topics couples fight about.

Right now, I had everything I could ask for. It wasn't a long list, but it was a very satisfying one, starting with the love of my life back in my arms.

Cloud Atlas' is but one of a long list of titles deemed unfilmable, by author and movie moguls alike, until it was, well, filmed.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

It is not difficult to come up with a long list of cricketers who like to have a good time - from the village green to the Test arena, it is a sociable sport.

I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.

People are in a hurry. They don't want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.

The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.