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Letter "P" » paragraphs
«There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.»
Author: Alexander Cockburn
| Keywords:
correction, delete, deleted, electronic, finality, gust, gusts, insert, inserted, inserting, key word, massacre, negate, negated, negating, paragraphs, terminal, The Terminal, The Touch, whimsicality
«No form letters are sent out from this office. No husband was ever Section Three, Paragraph II-a, to his wife.»
«I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cram, crammed, paragraphing, paragraphs
«Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.»
Author: Franklin Pierce Adams
(Columnist, Journalist, Translator)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, unimaginative
«Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.»
Author: John Kotter
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
formed, go a long way, paragraphing, paragraphs, sentences, slickness
«Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
| Keywords:
finer, footnote, footnotes, hold fast, paragraphing, paragraphs, suckered, surfaces, testicular, The Library, wider
«Characters drop into whorehouses, have a little sex between paragraphs and leave without advancing the plot.»
«[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.»
Author: William H. Gass
| Keywords:
airports, landmark, landmarks, paragraphs, passages, point of reference, reference, reference point, restroom, restrooms, speedy
«The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
epigram, paragraphing, paragraphs, platitude, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
«Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, reflect
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