The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence. — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo? — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence. — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ...… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that’s because it’s all a chain, and a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have reflected a great deal on that event, and continue to do so. I cannot give you a complete answer in… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
