It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all.… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
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The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“What about James?” “James? James, the guy I work with? James who takes ice cream scooping more seriously than anyone should? James… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively 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
I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
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The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of… — August Spies Copy Share Image
Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too.… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody… — James Patterson 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
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word.… — Harriet Doerr Copy Share Image
For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
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