Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting.… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does,… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the… — Vanderlei Luxemburgo Copy Share Image
I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
