English language Quote by Ken Scott Download Open image ““Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End”” — Ken Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare English language Fiction writing Fiction-novel Language Writing life
“You think about these words final last never a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
“people may give words of suggestion but in the end your words will the final” — rojade silva Copy Share Image
“No matter how many words we get, there's always going to be the last one, and one word is never enough.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.” — David Brin Copy Share Image
“There’s always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional,… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Good thing or bad thing must surely come to an end but absoluety nothing last forever” — Maryann Copy Share Image
“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Books, I read them for one reason and one reason only so that I can appear more educated than I actually am.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much while actually… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and Joyce, was clerkly enough, sceptical in many ways; and yet we can without difficulty convict most of these authors of dangerous lapses into mythical thinking. All were men of critical temper, haters of the decadence of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you were not going to budge, whether expressing an opinion or an intention. It was a statement, not a question, and the only word in the English language to which it was pointless to respond. If you… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is the final test for any written piece... Do not neglect your sense of hearing in the process of writing and reading. As a longtime teacher of English as a foreign language, I can tell you on… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables of the… — Gary Anderson Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
