#longest

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

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#after #because #fill #generation #hardest

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. ↗

— James Joyce

#home #into #longest #round #run

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#any #bottom #bottom line #continuously #documented

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#history #human #institutions #jurisprudence #known

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. ↗

— John Masefield

#laughs #life #longest #who

Time is the longest distance between two places. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#between #distance #longest #places #two

I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country. ↗

— John Engler

#consecutive #country #gone #governor #governors

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history. ↗

— Greg Knight

#history #labour #longest #manifesto #note

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comics #else #few #get #happening