Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences. — Brian Kiley Copy Share Image
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence. — Stjepan Mesic Copy Share Image
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists'… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs… — Plato Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke. — Andrew McAleer Copy Share Image
“Some sentences have the right to change our minds, don’t you think?” — Irfan Master Copy Share Image
The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words. — Shepard Smith Copy Share Image
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
