Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating.… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension,… — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years.… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own… — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“That’s what I try to do—write sentences that won’t be like sand castles.” — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Emilio Botin Copy Share Image
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
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