The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you… — George Halas Copy Share Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your” — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“If you want to fulfil your dreams, stay away from the people who look down on you. Those who try to finish… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“But a man of awareness, an authentically religious man only responds. He is not in your hands; you cannot pull him down,… — Osho Copy Share Image
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and… — Ralph Lombreglia Copy Share Image
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . .… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We began our hospital visits: one day Susan, one day me, everyday The Big Hoom. On one of these visits, she told… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an… — Christopher T. Garry Copy Share Image
“Ponder and his fellow students watched Hex carefully. 'It can't just, you know, stop,' said Adrian 'Mad Drongo' Tumipseed. 'The ants are… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You’re allowed to vegetate in front of the TV, but first you need to put your running shoes on and walk outside… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Did you hear about the middle Eastern potentate?" he asked me. "This potentate called a meeting of the wise men in the… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Allan realised it was only a matter of time before he and Herbert were stopped along the road and checked out properly.… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“he smiled at her as though he had not with a single sentence blown the sane structure of her life into slithering… — Laura London Copy Share Image
“If you can't do it, don't pledge to do it. Don't be a liar; say only what you can do. It's better… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Without being aware that I was following in my father’s footsteps, I read, before I went to Cambridge, Mill’s Logic and Political… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What would a successful outcome look like? If you only had a limited amount of time or a single sentence to tell… — Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
“If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“To help the conversations go well, I reminded everyone that feedback should always go both ways. I talked about how a single… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I tell myself, 'You're great, you're powerful, you're strong. You're the greatest, most powerful, strongest fighter in the world.' I acknowledge my… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
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