There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied. — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy. — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is… — Ujjwal Nikam Copy Share Image
Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for… — Frederick Denison Maurice Copy Share Image
Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence.… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles. — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it! — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image