When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation,… — Mirah Copy Share Image
If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is… — Warren Hutcherson Copy Share Image
He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me." — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya Copy Share Image
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