Longest Word Quotes

#1. Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

George Horace Lorimer

#2. The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

Sam Levenson

#3. Why is the word yes so brief?
it should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
so that upon reflection you could stop
in the middle of saying it.

Vera Pavlova

#4. A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

Michael Baumgartner

#5. Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

Mort Sahl

#6. The future is always a bit wobbly. Any little thing, like the fall of a snowflake or the dropping of the wrong kind of spoon, can send it spinning off along a new path. Or perhaps not.

Terry Pratchett

#7. WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?

Terry Pratchett

#8. We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

Chris Stein

#9. Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched - once they've become tribal badges of honor - are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people.

Joshua D. Greene

#10. 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

#11. It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

Pico Iyer

#12. His words hung between us for the longest time before he whispered, "Someone you could lean on when you were tired of standing on your own." Was he fucking serious? Did he really think I saw him as weak? Or unworthy in any sense of the word? "I

Sloane Kennedy

#13. In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is

William Wordsworth

#14. But unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. The weather isn't what you think it is. Not by a long shot.
Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin in Ill Wind

Rachel Caine

#16. No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body ... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries.

Ken Loach

#17. I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

Jonathan Winters

#18. Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

#19. The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Bruce Coville

#20. Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.

George Washington

#21. The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser