Sentence Quotes
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It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.
Chuck Klosterman -
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
John Stuart Mill
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I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.
Ethan Canin -
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 -
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 -
The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence. I'm constantly learning more and more about the guy.
Clark Gregg -
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll -
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
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For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Claude Simon -
Make no a complete sentence.
Amy Poehler -
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
William Faulkner -
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 -
You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
Confucius
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne Carson -
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
Arthur Brisbane -
A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
Berton Braley -
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.
Lewis Carroll -
For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
Courtney Milan -
There was only one sentence in it. ‘Tell no one about the 99 steps. Monsieur Neuf’!”
Carolyn Keene
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The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.
Hans Bellmer -
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 -
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'
David Mermin -
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
Bo Lozoff