Longest Recorded Confirmed

Famous quotes containing the words longest, recorded and/or confirmed:

“Daisies in water are the longest lasting
flower you can give to someone.
Fact.
Buy daisies.
Not roses.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)

“What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)