A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading,… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim… — Felix Dzerzhinsky Copy Share Image
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled… — Franco Frattini Copy Share Image
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image