“Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're… — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't smoke a lot of pot anymore. No one wants to hang around a guy who ends every sentence with, "Do… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man… — Warren Farrell 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
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
“And just before I go to sleep, I'll think of sentences that don't contain words like Hoover, Jogging, and Heart Transplant” — Kirsten Gier Copy Share Image
I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“...they do quote me, that means that my words and my sentences get under their skins although they do no know it.” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“Leave no "full stop" in between the sentences that make up your life story. If anything, let "commas" show that when you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up… — Jay Watson Copy Share Image
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or… — Lynda Barry 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs.… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image