If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as… — Julian Clary Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we… — Gil Garcetti Copy Share Image
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I… — Anne Shirley Copy Share Image
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence. — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to… — Jean Dujardin 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
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
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
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