Sentences Quotes · Page 26

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for…

— Jack White

It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their…

— Rick Bass

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims…

— Ahdaf Soueif

I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.…

— James Joyce

Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences…

— Anonymous

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is…

— Anna Quindlen

There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word…

— Bertrand Russell

It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.

— Stjepan Mesic

...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before…

— Robert Farrar Capon

The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not…

— Richard Jackson

Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at…

— Margot Livesey

Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And…

— Kate Burridge

The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and…

— Brennan Manning

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

— Roy Blount, Jr

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing…

— Ronee Blakley

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

— Garrison Wynn

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

— Donald Glover

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked…

— Cornel West

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the…

— Andrea Camilleri

I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:…

— William Shakespeare

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the…

— Rosie O'Donnell

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown…

— Anthony de Jasay