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Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. — George Orwell

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors. — John Rhys-Davies

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. — Cat Stevens

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence. — J.L. Carr

He opens his eyes and looks at me. "I like kissing you, Tate." I don't know why that sentence seemed hard for him to say, — Colleen Hoover

The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence. — Mitchell Symons

Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge. — Jon Krakauer

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. — Hugh Prather

For each person there is a sentence - a series of words - which has the power to destroy them. — Philip K. Dick

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is. — Lois Wyse

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith

My sentence is for open war. — John Milton

I was nothing more to him than a prison sentence, trapping him inside my walls and persecuting him for a crime he was tricked into committing. — Nikki Kelly

There is no minimum length for a sentence that's acceptable in the eyes of God. — William Zinsser

With one sentence and two steps, forever began. Till Page walked through my door for the very first time. — Aly Martinez

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand

We were on our way to the colmado for an errand. — Junot Diaz

But he didn't seem to need her to finish her sentence as he said, I know. When you kiss me, it's like that for me, too. — Bella Andre

A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body. — Kate Atkinson

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change. — Barbara Pym

Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that ... " — Rhonda Byrne

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it. — Claude Simon

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. — Douglas Horton

Never be boring, not for one scene, paragraph, sentence, or word. — James V. Smith Jr.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat. — Suzy Kassem

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. — Michael Hastings

The maximum sentence was twenty years for each free phone call. Twenty years for each call! I was facing a worst-case scenario of 460 years. — Kevin D. Mitnick

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there's a sentence written especially for us. — Pietro Citati

Happy endings aren't for cowards. — Jill A. Davis

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope

For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence. — Simone De Beauvoir

My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons. — William Kidd

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom. — Jeremy Bentham

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life. — Crawford Kilian

Yes, according to the way he wrote that sentence, he turned invisible for one line. No, he won't let me change it. — Brandon Sanderson

I begin with writing the first
sentence - and trusting to Almighty
God for the second. — Laurence Sterne

Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke. — Andrew McAleer

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me. — Lauren Oliver

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. — Ayn Rand

German wasn't good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn't interrupt. — Jeffrey Eugenides

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson

Midnight was closing in, the one-legged woman was grievously burned, and the Mumbai police were coming for Abdul and his father. — Katherine Boo

You could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence ... — Garrett McCoy

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — Salman Rushdie

The value of a sentence is the personality that utters't, for nothing new can be said by any man or woman. — Joseph Conrad

The compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. — Vladimir Nabokov

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them. — Neil Gaiman

The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, "The strength of your book is your villain." How — Debra Dixon

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. — Irakli Okruashvili

In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee. — Gerald Clarke

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot — Larry Brooks

God knew that creating mankind was a death sentence for Jesus, but He created us anyway. — Vance C. Kessler

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it! — Lennox Lewis

Some things you sentence yourself to life for. — Donna Lynn Hope

Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content. — Francine Prose

I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought. — Binnie Kirshenbaum

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. — H.G.Wells

Before you finish that sentence, I want you to think about what a promise from me costs and what you're willing to pay for it. — Leigh Bardugo

Debt is a four letter word and means a four word sentence - Be Prepared for Trouble. — Lucas Remmerswaal

I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence. — Jessica Simpson

I miss Latin. So much fun
all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language. — Libba Bray

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air. — David Halberstam

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley. — Claude Rains

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In one simple sentence: what Christians want for the nation should first be a witnessed reality in their local church. — Scot McKnight

I would have thought even you could understand such a simple sentence, Father. Shall I repeat it in Latin for you? — L.J.Smith

Every word, every phrase, wants to be in a sentence, when it is written for you. — M.F. Moonzajer

MENTAL LAMENT
Anagram depicting life sentence for materialists
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. — Nick Cave

Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence. — James Richardson

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. — Soren Kierkegaard