When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning. — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Many times, I don't know how to express myself, and I always keep silence cause I can't find the right sentences for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a… — Miguel Gomes Copy Share Image
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it… — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's… — Dick Enberg Copy Share Image
Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike.… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
