When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
And I'll tell ya, I'm really enjoying this marriage thing. You think about each other. You care about each other. It's wonderful!… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Actually learning ancient Greek was a brilliant practice of mine because you'd sit there and you'd read a sentence and sometimes it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we… — Gil Garcetti Copy Share Image
You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna 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 anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
