The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Being a parent is a life sentence. You see, that's why normal people should not have children because if you raise a… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls… — Janette Rallison 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
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
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
