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1223 Sentences quotes by 868 unique authors

I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J---… — Woody Harrelson
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through… — Barbara Tuchman
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the… — Gautama Buddha
I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of… — Mark Lynas
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what… — Bonnie Friedman
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. — Wilson Follett
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no… — Kate Bernheimer
I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought. — Binnie Kirshenbaum
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. — Plato
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of… — Gene Veith
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. — Don DeLillo
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the… — Benjamin Franklin
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as… — Jorge Luis Borges
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very… — Steven Pinker
I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. — Gillian Flynn
I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you… — Alice Munro
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write… — Jonathan Franzen
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The… — Jack White
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming… — William Allen White
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been… — Woodrow Wilson
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’ — Thomas S. Monson

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