The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley 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
I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike.… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
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
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction — C. N. Annadurai Copy Share Image
I will build the wall and I will impose tough mandatory minimum - remember this - tough mandatory minimum prison sentences for… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by… — John Green Copy Share Image
To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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