I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him? — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every… — Gerd R. Puin Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences. — Jeremy Larner Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
