Quotes About Conjunctions

#1. A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction
besides unexpected interludes
has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end.

Yann Martel

#2. Most cities are nouns, but New York is a verb. What might Beunas Yerbas be, I wonder?'
'A string of adjectives and conjunctions?'
'Or an expletive?

David Mitchell

#3. I don't believe that Nature's powers
Have tied her hands or pinioned ours,
By marking on the heavenly vault
Our fate without mistake or fault.
That fate depends on conjunctions
Of places, persons, times, and tracks,
And not on the functions
Of more or less of quacks.

Jean De La Fontaine

#4. I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.

Randy Newman

#5. A most unfailing experience ... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

Johannes Kepler

#6. On verge of going apostrophic, taking foxglove, myrrh, mare's milk cure, shedding articles, shredding conjunctions, but can't shake prepositions.

Kate Campbell

#7. He thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up
a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the
uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Aldous Huxley

#8. In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Catherine The Great

#9. My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

Patricia MacLachlan

#10. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.

Heinrich Boll

#11. An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.

William DeWitt Hyde

#12. It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

Ai Weiwei

#13. The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#14. In a postmodern world where all religious activity is seen as what we do for God, we need to proclaim Christianity is about what God has done for us.

Jefferson Bethke

#15. I reached into his underwear and got out his cock. "This works." "It's for fucking you." I snapped the shower door open. "Never stop putting that cock in me.

Anonymous

#16. A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#17. It's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

E.L. Doctorow

#19. Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#20. May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Tom Hanks

#21. I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn't take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.

George Burns

#22. This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.

Alexis Hall

#23. The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

Tammy Wynette

#24. The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Mark Twain

#25. No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction

C. N. Annadurai

#26. My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Billy Corgan

#27. I want the words to be read in conjunction with the music.

Matt Tong

#28. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

Jamie Smith