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
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to… — Martin Samuel Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because… — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings,… — Craig Clevenger 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
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
Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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
If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is… — Warren Hutcherson Copy Share Image
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
“I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.” — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
![“One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.” quote by Gene Veith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/28a/gene-veith-43536_age_one-would-think-that-persecution-would-b_604054.jpg)
![“You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly.” quote by Jay Mohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/505/jay-mohr-4777_college_you-could-teach-george-carlin-in-college_1829718.jpg)
