Subjunctive Tense Quotes

#1. But you will break Anne's heart.'
'Her heart has to break and her spirit has to break if she is to be any use to her family.' My mother said coldly

Philippa Gregory

#2. A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot ...

Don DeLillo

#3. It is faith that moves mountains, not reason. Reason is a tool, but it can never be the motive force of the crowd." This

Jonah Goldberg

#4. Take the craziest dream you ever had and go after it. Make it a reality. I don't want you to dream, I want you to do.

Puff Daddy

#5. Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

C.J. Cherryh

#6. Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.

James Baldwin

#7. Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being "creative" and before you know it, you're writing.

Cory Doctorow

#8. F***ing triffids.

Scott B. Pruden

#9. Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

John Milton

#10. Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

Irma S. Rombauer

#11. I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!

Carolyn Wells

#12. Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?

P.C. Cast

#13. I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help.

Lisa Marie Presley

#14. It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.

Kenneth Grahame

#15. I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

Idi Amin

#16. Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.

Mary Lee Settle