Attributive Quotes

#1. In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.

E.B. White

#2. I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

Chip Kidd

#3. My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#4. Wars are won in the will.

Robert Fanney

#5. I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Eli Roth

#6. Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

Karl Kraus

#7. Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Guy Kawasaki

#8. On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Earl Weaver

#9. No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

#10. Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

Calvin Trillin

#12. Mediocre people find their way into positions of authority ... because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

George Thorogood

#14. Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

Sharon Creech