A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now? — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. — Dianna Daniels Booher Copy Share Image
Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in — Drake Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney 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
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson 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
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more,… — W.G. Sebald 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
That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins 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
Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years.… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension,… — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
