Longest Single Span

Famous quotes containing the words longest, single and/or span:

    “A bill... is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “We ask for no statistics of the killed,
    For nothing political impinges on
    This single casualty, or all those gone,
    Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed,
    Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “The last bear, shot drinking in the Dakotas
    Loped under wires that span the mountain stream.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)