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
Good night, Seth." "So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor. "I'm not running." The other boot… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with… — Julia Quinn 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
The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery 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
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Sentences confined to limited definitions meanings restricted to limited words knotted in experiences and sensations musings, smiles and the eyes; and holding… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense,… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every… — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to… — Anita Rau Badami Copy Share Image
One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous:… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have… — Tom Jenkinson Copy Share Image
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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