Sentence Quotes
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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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There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
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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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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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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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I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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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.
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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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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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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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We plan on filing an appeal within 60 days of the sentence.
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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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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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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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Make no a complete sentence.
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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.
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I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete 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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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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My sentence is for open war.
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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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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
