I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to… — Henry Sweet Copy Share Image
I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ". — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people. — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise! — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Even if I had not been thinking about it, for that matter, certainly I would have had to begin to do so… — David Markson Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
“--'What did Mum want?' --'She said not to give away the milk for free.' --'You're not livestock. Go out with me?' --Not… — Emily Evans Copy Share Image
That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up… — Jay Watson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
