Famous quotes containing the words words and/or long:
“I saw
without words within me, saw
as if my eyes
had grown bigger and knew
how to look without
being told what it was they saw.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments of our fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769,... he had said of them, “Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)