Sentence Quotes
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.
Emily Bronte
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
Octavio Paz -
Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
Eddie Cantor -
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Alan Rickman -
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
Linda Ronstadt -
I drank that sentence and began to glow.
Gary Soto -
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
Jacques Lacan
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He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.
Claude Rains -
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
Melissa Bank -
I have the death sentence in seven genres.
Jasper Fforde -
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
Richard Powers -
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.
Mickey Rooney
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How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
Lennox Lewis -
I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.
Ethan Canin -
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
Jasper Fforde -
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
Louise Erdrich -
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.
Emilio Botin -
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
John Milton
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
Lewis H. Lapham -
From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence.
Alan Page -
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
Sarah Fielding -
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Edgar Allan Poe