Sentence Quotes
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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.
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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
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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.
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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.
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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!'
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Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
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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.
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There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
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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.
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I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
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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.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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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.
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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.
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I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
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My sentence is for open war.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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We plan on filing an appeal within 60 days of the sentence.
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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.
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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.
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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“Is it something I said?” Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all.
