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You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple… — Satya Nadella
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. — Carl Hiaasen
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. — Susan Sontag
If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope… — Christopher Hitchens
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model… — John Tukey
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a… — Jane Hirshfield
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that… — Marie Howe
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action… — Ludwig von Mises
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely… — Howard Dean
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but… — Stephen C. Meyer
Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a… — Linda Ronstadt
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it — Clifford Geertz
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,… — Elwyn Brooks White
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go… — Betsy Byars
Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with… — Billy Graham
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Unknown Author
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to… — Lewis Carroll
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by… — Peter Kropotkin
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. — Richard Rorty
Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder… — J I Packer

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