Sentence Quotes
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
Joseph Abboud
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." He believes in you.
Alexandre Dumas
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You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.
Ethan Canin
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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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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
Georgette Heyer
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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
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I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
Bohumil Hrabal
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
Victor Hugo
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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
Susan Orlean
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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
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It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down to one sentence?
Brenda Shaughnessy
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I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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Make no a complete sentence.
Amy Poehler
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We plan on filing an appeal within 60 days of the sentence.
Bob Moore
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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
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There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
Susan Orlean
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Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
Joyce Carol Oates
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I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
Gavin de Becker
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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
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Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.
Stuart Scott
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My sentence is for open war.
John Milton
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
Jules Verne
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
Seth Godin