It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... " — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky 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
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image