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«The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Mississippi, patterns, sentence, slipping, sock, socks, Southerner
«To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.»
«The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, communism, private, private property, property, sentence, summed, theory of
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
Author: William Strunk, Jr.
| Keywords:
concise, contain, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, lines, machine, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, sentence, sentences, unnecessary, vigorous
«There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.»
«To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
drudgery, racehorse, sentence, treadmill
«To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
all-time, appeal, book of knowledge, conception, councils, council of, Judges, LED, of all time, purer, rightly, sentence, solitary, unstable, wider
«Sentence first, verdict afterwards.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
afterwards, sentence, The Verdict, verdict, verdicts
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy
«The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
ending, endings, Forbade, forbidding, forbids, his rule, kind, kindest, kind of, nonsense, preposition, put, put over, put through, put under, rule, rule by, rule out, sentence, sentenced, sentencing
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