The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'. — Carl F. H. Henry 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
I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us.… — Douglas Davis Copy Share Image
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ...… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I]… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just… — John Darnielle 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
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret]. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
