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Long Way Quotes (page 3)

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff. Stevie Smith
From where I am," the sun said, "I can see the Soul of the World. It communicates with my soul, and together we cause the plants to grow and the sheep to seek out shade. From where I am--and I'm a long way from the earth--I learned ow to love. I know that if I came even a little bit closer to the earth, everything there would die, and the Soul of the World would no longer exist. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it light and warmth, and it gives me my reason... Paulo Coelho
John Steinbeck quote: "Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar."
Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar. John Steinbeck
Paulo Coelho quote: "Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near"
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near Paulo Coelho
Love again: wanking at ten past three (Surely he's taken her home by now?), The bedroom hot as a bakery, The drink gone dead, without showing how To meet tomorrow, and afterwards, And the usual pain, like dysentery. Someone else feeling her breasts and cunt, Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare, And me supposed to be ignorant, Or find it funny, or not to care, Even ... but why put it into words? Isolate rather this element That spreads through other lives like a tree And... Philip Larkin
The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing. Cormac McCarthy
A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers. Knut Hamsun
Dean Koontz quote: "Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is..."
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way. Dean Koontz
You sold a story last week," said Pettit, "about a gun fight in an Arizona mining town in which the hero drew his Colt's .45 and shot seven bandits as fast as they came in the door. Now, if a six-shooter coul?"Oh, well," said I, "that's different. Arizona is a long way from New York. I could have a man stabbed with a lariat or chased by a pair of chaparreras if I wanted to, and it wouldn't be noticed until the usual error-sharp from around McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in... O. Henry
Charlotte Bronte quote: "It is a long way off, sir"From what Jane?"From England and..."
It is a long way off, sir"From what Jane?"From England and from Thornfield: and ___"Well?"From you, sir Charlotte Bronte
Al Capone quote: "You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther..."
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. Al Capone
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. Douglas Adams
Philip Larkin quote: "It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long..."
It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity. Philip Larkin
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must..."
He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway] F. Scott Fitzgerald

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