I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words. — Shepard Smith Copy Share Image
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to… — Joshua Bloch Copy Share Image
How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart'… — Jean Fleming Copy Share Image
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit… — James Joyce 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
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
