And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life.… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of… — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a… — Miguel Gomes Copy Share Image
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Many times, I don't know how to express myself, and I always keep silence cause I can't find the right sentences for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly,… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ...… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image