On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you… — George Halas Copy Share Image
The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists… — Ahmad Sa'adat Copy Share Image
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life,… — Edoardo Ponti Copy Share Image
“--'What did Mum want?' --'She said not to give away the milk for free.' --'You're not livestock. Go out with me?' --Not… — Emily Evans Copy Share Image
The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting.… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up! — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I… — Leeza Gibbons Copy Share Image
Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
