One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet,… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go.… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and… — Ralph Lombreglia Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail. They remain the test, whether or not… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those… — John Selden Copy Share Image
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me."… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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