There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. I'm trying always to leave out what I think… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a… — Miguel Gomes Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from… — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
