Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance,… — Tim Foreman Copy Share Image
I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart'… — Jean Fleming Copy Share Image
The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The first two sentences are hard to understand, but make some kind of sense. The last sentence is merely rearranged but makes… — Tom Stafford Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
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
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Just to be mentioned in the same sentence with those guys feels good, but I want to take it to another level.… — Takeo Spikes Copy Share Image
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to… — Martin Samuel Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because… — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings,… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and… — Mirah Copy Share Image
If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth,… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
