Sentences Quotes
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This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
Sarah Dessen
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Neither am I. A grown man should be able to acknowledge a sincerely offered apology and converse in sentences consisting of more than five words.
Beverly Jenkins
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Why these eyes without reading, but always ready to read? This mad will to be healed by the word when all sentences are only hiccups, shivers, sorry tics of the void?
Edmond Jabes
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People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.
Heath Ledger
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If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
Paul Rust
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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
Sherman Alexie
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If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.
Herbert Spencer
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Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.
Erma Bombeck
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But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
Brian Christian