Paragraphs Quotes
65 quotes by 65 authors
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To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit…
— Truman G. Madsen
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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a…
— John P. Kotter
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Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
— Karl G. Maeser
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I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
— William J. Clinton
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On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea…
— Edward Condon
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My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end…
— Gustave Flaubert
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On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of…
— Robert Bellarmine
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With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A…
— Skip Horack
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Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the…
— Fareed Zakaria
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
— Rick Moody
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You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
— William H. Gass
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I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
— Grace Paley
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
— Robert Peel
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Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
— Barrett Wendell
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than…
— A. E. van Vogt
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a…
— Alexander Cockburn
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In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.
— Robert Henri
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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of…
— Brendan Gill
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand…
— Constance Hale
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