Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas… — Percy Foreman Copy Share Image
“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
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
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and… — Steven Sinofsky 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
Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And… — Tertullian Copy Share Image