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Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. — Bob Frankston
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence. — King Vidor
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is… — Stephen Shore
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be… — Mike Farrell
It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the… — Garrett Hedlund
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving… — Carol Burnett
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God. — William Zinsser
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and… — Matt Fraction
I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was… — Percy Foreman
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for… — Suzy Kassem
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended… — Suzy Kassem
Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which… — Murong Xuecun
We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence. — Garrison Wynn
My sentence is for open war. — John Milton
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code… — Ronald Reagan
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single… — Robert South
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the… — Walter Moers
But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was… — Andrea Camilleri
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like… — Ahmet Zappa
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words. — Shepard Smith
Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that… — George Will
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary,… — Pope Pius XII

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