#prose

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#develop #distinguished #event #fall #form

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#credible #documents #else #got #heaven

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. ↗

— George Steiner

#being #brain #expression #heart #human

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. ↗

— Star Jones

#attorney #brooklyn #district #district attorney #division

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#greatest #language #living #mccarthy #perfect

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted. ↗

— Ric Keller

#arrested #border #border patrol #california #me

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#enforce #favor #fear #finally #good

I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#follow #get #had #hot #i