“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK. — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life. — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once. — John Coltrane 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
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences.… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This country you're sitting in right now was not built on love, hugs, time-outs and trophies you didn't earn. This country was… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have.… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“ 'Are you capable of constructing sentences without the use of sarcasm? Occasionally ” — Ashlee Nicole Bye Copy Share Image
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. — William Shunn Copy Share Image
But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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