Sentence Quotes
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The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
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From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence.
Alan Page
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This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.
Conan O'Brien
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
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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
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Edgar Allan Poe
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In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
Michael Finkel
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I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
William Faulkner
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence,
you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is.
Where they come from never goes dry.
It is an always flowing spring.
Rumi
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One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
Gene Veith
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr
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There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
Carolyn Keene
