We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I… — Leeza Gibbons Copy Share Image
The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more… — Tim Frick Copy Share Image
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer 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
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
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