#prose

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #prose




I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.


Jeff Vandermeer


#care #down #entirely #i #lush

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.


John Cusack


#intellectual #investigated #lot #may #people

Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.


Donald Evans


#deficits #going #homeland #might #more

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.


Peter Welch


#bank #carefully #crisis #department #financial

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.


Victoria Gotti


#boss #crime #family #father #john

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.


Jennifer Granholm


#anything #distinction #fetus #happens #harm

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.


Harold H. Greene


#allowing #any #based #been #being

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.


Franz Grillparzer


#art #differ #excursion #goal #journey

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.


Bernard Hinault


#cycling #depicted #distributors #harshly #health

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.


Howard Hodgkin


#copies #find #gallery #i #infinitely