“News Headline Noun String Length World Record Breaker Runner-Up”

— James Taranto

Referring to a BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13905331 with the headline "Breast Cancer Prostate Drug Hope"
from Best of the Web Today for June 27, 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576411740143493006.html

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Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 82.

“Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“The basic problem is to understand that there are no such things as things; that is to say separate things, separate events. That is only a way of talking. What do you mean by a thing? A thing is a noun. A noun isn’t a part of nature it’s a part of speech. There are no nouns in the physical world. There are no separate things in the physical world either.”

Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker

Watts on Wiggles Waves http://wigglesandwaves.blogspot.nl/2004/12/watts-on-wiggles-waves.html, used in the Cosmosis track No Such Thing (2007).

“He has the record on 40 metres. I think it's 4.72 seconds or something like that. Certainly Theo could have been a 100-metre runner.”

Theo Walcott (1989) English association football player

Arsène Wenger, Arsenal manager, 2009 ( Source http://www.insideworldsoccer.com/2009/12/theo-walcott-couldve-been-100-metre.html)
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“If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.”

Anna Wintour (1949) English editor-in-chief of American Vogue

Reported, quoted by Emma Brockes; May 27, 2006; " What lies beneath http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1784390,00.html"; The Guardian; retrieved March 23, 2007.

“Should a record setting year or string of them be cause for alarm? Personally I don't think so.”

Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist

2006 Hottest Year on Record – So what? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/01/10/2006-hottest-year-on-record-so-what-part-1/, wattsupwiththat.com, January 10, 2007.
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