I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words… Statements are made, words or sentences are used. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they… — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
“Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.” Crane grinned at him. “One was in absentia. One wasn’t, and… — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The strength behind communication is in its quality, not in its quantity. Your talk should be that of quality, not of quantity.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
“If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating.… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us.… — Douglas Davis Copy Share Image
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way.… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to… — Henry Sweet Copy Share Image
We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
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