I don't smoke a lot of pot anymore. No one wants to hang around a guy who ends every sentence with, "Do… — Mike Birbiglia 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
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it.… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly.… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die and then some.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I… — Andrew Fastow Copy Share Image
I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
I would love to see a debate on economics between Trump and Obama. Mr. 'Scholar,' Mr. Faculty Lounge Extraordinaire versus Mr. Real… — Rush Limbaugh 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
I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
