“ God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 1K
“ God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 1.8K
“ With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality. ”
- Richard Price- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Characters drop into whorehouses, have a little sex between paragraphs and leave without advancing the plot. ”
- Rhoda Koenig- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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. ”
- Brendan Gill- Copy
- 3.7K
“ For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
- 927
“ Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis. ”
- e. e. cummings- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. ”
- Barrett Wendell- Copy
- 690
“ With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. ”
- Dirk Bogarde- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel, and by nightfall, it's a paragraph in my column. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. ”
- Nicholson Baker- Copy
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“ A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
- 4K
“ 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. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. ”
- William Strunk Jr.- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book — provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place… ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I mean, if you think about a writer, you're going to write a novel that takes several months, but there's never a time you're doing anything more than shoving one word up against the next. And clusters of those words make sentences and paragraphs and a chapter… ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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. ”
- Alexander Cockburn- Copy
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“ The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report… ”
- Frederick P. Brooks- Copy
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