There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken… — Goran Visnjic Copy Share Image
You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die and then some.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're… — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Even if I had not been thinking about it, for that matter, certainly I would have had to begin to do so… — David Markson Copy Share Image
The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'. — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image