I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They dont jump in on your sentences, saving… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually… — William Styron Copy Share Image
There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
“Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think some of this just feels right. You're in the shower and you come up with a sentence and it's beautiful.… — Don Hertzfeldt 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
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
