“When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.” WayHardSentencesDisasterOur Words Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.” YearsHardJobsThreeHoursHalfTakenYears AgoSentencesGet BetterThree YearsHalf Hours Author:Goran Visnjic
“I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.” ThinkingWritingDoeHardCertainDisciplineIntellectualStructureSentencesMapping Author:Daniel Alarcon
“Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.” CountryHardShowsPrinciplesJudgingConscienceFollowingSentencesTrialsPassingPassingsCardsOur CountryPatrioticPassing Out Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.” ThinkingMadeStillsHardCharacterActionInterestingStudySentencesHard TimesFascinatingCashContradictoryInteresting CharactersOne Sentence Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.” KnowsShouldWritingTryingHardStoriesSeemsEasySoundKnow HowProduceSkillsSentencesMisleadTrumpetsWeird Things Author:Gail Carson Levine
“We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.” FirstsHeartSelfHardLove IsCasesReadyJudgingSelf LoveThirdsOvercomingStriveDefeatSentencesFlatteryJuryExecutionersSophistry Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan