Syntactically Not The Subject Quotes

#1. We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

Miranda Lambert

#2. Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

Harold Brodkey

#3. Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.

Rosalind E. Krauss

#4. I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

Bob Uecker

#5. I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.

Donald Hall

#6. It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

Yannick Noah

#7. I'm falling in love with you. As the words left his mouth, his lips pressed to mine, giving me the most intense and explosive kiss I had ever had. With the coldness of his lips and the warmth of his tongue beneath mine I saw fireworks and felt them through every part of my body.

Magan Vernon

#8. How are you still sane?"
"Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."
Shit.

Brodi Ashton

#9. My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

Eddie Trunk

#10. President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

David Powers

#11. More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The

Agatha Christie

#12. More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.

S.E. Hinton

#13. Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. I guess you don't get to watch much TV in Irkalla."
He propped his head on one scaly bicep and turned to look at me. "Nah. We stayed busy torturing the souls of the damned and playing hide the hot poker. You know, the usual.

Jaye Wells