#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

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

— James Joyce

#home #into #longest #round #run

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#longest #love #never #returned

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#incessant #less #longest #love #perilous

Time is the longest distance between two places. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#between #distance #longest #places #two

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. ↗

— Dana Plato

#decade #i #joke #longest #longest time

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#lives #longest #love #love is #thing

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#close #decade #enacted #fact #federal

'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#end #end of the day #even #friends #had

The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#album #came #did #great #had