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
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. — Katy Lederer 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
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
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
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
Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase… — Rick Warren 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
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
Sometimes if I really want to get someone's attention, I'll start a sentence with something like, "I'm not racist, but..." I say,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller 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
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand… — Lily King Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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