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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like… — Joshua Reynolds
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation,… — Adolf Hitler
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. — Michael Heseltine
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,… — Janet Fitch
Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half… — Goran Visnjic
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence,… — Eric Maisel
I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you… — Tiesto
Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No;… — Brigham Young
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than… — Karen Thompson Walker
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me,… — Karen Thompson Walker
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the… — William Shatner
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. — Michael Hastings
The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because… — Wilfrid Sheed
Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise,… — Wilfrid Sheed
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. — Winston Churchill
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in… — William Hazlitt
I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it. — Unknown Author
All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of… — Joseph Sugarman
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's… — Jeff VanderMeer
I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. — Noel Gallagher

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