If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one…

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until…

— Louise Erdrich

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a…

— Robert Pinsky

All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the…

— William Zinsser

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

— David Mamet

I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I think your…

— Max Lucado

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in…

— Confucius

It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence…

— Jane Rule

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am…

— Tom Stoppard

All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but…

— Richard P. Feynman

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under…

— Joan Blades

A great man is one sentence.

— Clare Boothe Luce

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.

— Paul Reiche III

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound…

— Paul Lisicky

He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could…

— Mickey Rooney