"Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them."

-- Wilson Follett

#Syntax Quotes #Certain Quotes #Prose Quotes

“I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.”
“I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're that rich to be able to hang out for two or three days, you're certainly rich enough to get on a plane and go to Munich or Düsseldorf or wherever and see somebody's real show instead of this stuff just stacked around.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.”
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
“The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.”
“A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.”

Source : F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.155, Chosen Books
“Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.”
“The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!”

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