I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them,… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active.… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but… — Paul Morabito Copy Share Image
No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from… — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in… — Herbert Bayard Swope Copy Share Image
But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence. — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead." — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Grammar is what gives sense to language … sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
“I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
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