Sentence Quotes
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
Victor Hugo -
During these first days, when, in the disarray of mind and senses which was the consequence of the iniquitous sentence passed on me, I had resolved to kill myself, my dear wife, with her undaunted devotion and courage, made me realize that it is because I am innocent that I have not the right to abandon her or wilfully to desert my post.
Alfred Dreyfus
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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 -
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 -
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
Rick Yancey -
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 -
My sentence is for open war.
John Milton -
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
Joyce Carol Oates
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I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
Bohumil Hrabal -
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 -
There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
Joseph Abboud -
I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.
Binnie Kirshenbaum -
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 -
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr
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To hell with your cancer. I've been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it's a death sentence. That's what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times - hell, maybe even today - I'm gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life.
Walter White -
That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
Ernest Gowers -
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
Seth Godin -
I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
Gavin de Becker -
We plan on filing an appeal within 60 days of the sentence.
Bob Moore -
“Is it something I said?” Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all.
Courtney Milan
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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 -
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
Susan Orlean -
During abusive conversations each remark after the first is only about the previous remark. -- Verbal abuse is less complex than other forms of conversation! "Aware of their stateless, knee-jerk character, I recognize that the terse remark I want to blurt has far more to do with some kind of "reflex" to the very last sentence of the conversation than it does with either the actual issue at hand or the person I'm talking to. . . . I steer myself toward a more "stateful" response.
Brian Christian -
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