You are here: Quotes > Browse > Keywords > L > Linger Quotes

Linger Quotes


See also Core English Vocabulary (L) Quotes

"When I sing, to me every word had a feeling about it. I had to linger, had to hold it. I didn`t want to let go of it. I want to hold one word through a whole line of melody, to linger with it all the way down. I didn`t want to let go of that no more than I wanted to let go of the woman I loved. I didn`t want to lose it."

- Lefty Frizzell

I don`t want it to linger,

- Patrick Wilson

It was swift and they didn`t let it linger, which was nice. I`m glad it`s over. I`m indifferent. It`s not up to me to decide, that`s not my place.

- Darcy Tucker

I don`t linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don`t live on that today.

- Dawn Fraser

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

- C.S. Forester

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

- Alex Okosi

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.

- Amy Popp
View more Amy Popp Quotes

I don`t know. Things just happened. A lot of people can say it was the quarterback; a lot of people can say it was me; a lot of people can say it was the offense. I don`t know. It just didn`t go right. Point blank. It`s a new beginning now. I really don`t linger on the past. I want to look toward the future and do something good.

- Barney Hester