F. L. Lucas Quotes

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

And one more thing.

Hyperbole engaged in consciously to achieve a desired effect can be, as we have noted, a useful rhetorical tool. Indeed, its use in this manner is sometimes called "exaggeration in the service of truth." However, there's much to be said for restraint of tongue and pen, and restraint refers not only to what we say but also to how we say it. It is possible, believe it or not, to be emphatic without indulging in overstatement; it is possible to be forceful without exaggerating.

I believe in picking a strong ending.

Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate.

I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.