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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
— Gustave Flaubert
Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.
— Aleksandr Voinov
Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.
— Randy Pausch
A passion-driven exultant man sings outSentences that he has never thought ... — William Butler Yeats
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.
— Bernie Sanders
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.
— Tammara Webber
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
— John Adams
Life as we know it is a death sentence.
— Joseph Curiale
My sentence is for open war.
— John Milton
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
— Alexander Smith
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
— E.L. Doctorow
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
— Anatole Broyard
I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is.
— Laurence Cosse
Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.
— Woody Allen
Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.
— Pamela Morris
An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
— Ambrose Bierce
How do you do that?""Do what?"
"Say nothing at all for months on end, then kill me dead in three sentences? — Garrett Leigh
I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.
— John McPhee
No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
— C. N. Annadurai
Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
— Eddie Cantor
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words ... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
— J.L. Austin
Words are useless, especially sentences.
— Madonna Ciccone
SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path. — Idries Shah
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am.
— Sylvia Plath
If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to hang them.
— Armand Jean Du Plessis Richelieu
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
— Henry Miller
I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.
— David Rabe
Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.
— Roy Peter Clark
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
Slowly, slowly, I accumulate sentences. I have no idea what I'm doing until suddenly it reveals itself, almost done.
— Sarah Manguso
Everything laughed.
— Michael Montoure
The death sentence is a barbaric act.
— Nelson Mandela
Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences
— Piero Scaruffi
Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
— Sylvia Plath
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
— Polly Toynbee
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
— William Warburton
I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.
— James Patterson
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
— Ellen G. White
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
— Stephen King
The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."
— Wayne Dyer
Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.
— Terry Pratchett
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
— Anne McCaffrey
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.
— Steven Sinofsky
But music only exists because the pauses exist, and sentences only exist because the blank spaces exist.
— Paulo Coelho
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
— Pamela Frankau
All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ...
— Marcel Proust
I began to forget myself in the middle
of sentences. — Margaret Atwood
The best sentence? The shortest.
— Anatole France
Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.
— David Bayles
Suspect all your favorite sentences.
— Kenneth Atchity
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
— Thomas Hobbes
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
— Andrea Hirata
Then my outrage wandered away: never do junk if you need to finish thoughts, sentences, or simple tasks.
— Lynn Crosbie
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
— Virginia Woolf
Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
— King Vidor
Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.
— Matthew Flaming
Mistakes aren't life sentences they are life lessons.
— Martha Lemasters
As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.
— Marcia Muller
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
— Roy Blount Jr.
First sentences are doors to worlds.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
— James Patterson
It helps to read the sentence aloud.
— Harry Kemelman
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
— Douglas Hofstadter
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
— Charlotte Bronte
Sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
— Emma Donoghue
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.
— Michael Hyatt
Our absence is what remains of us.
— Catherine O'Flynn
One of my favorite first sentences of abook is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
— Jean Rostand
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
— Anne Enright
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
— John Diamond
