That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.” — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
“If we are right, big bangs are taking place even as you read this sentence.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence. — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“My world is under her control, but I see that one day I could have freedom, in a sentence, or a paragraph,… — Danielle Flood Copy Share Image
If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. I make movies,… — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence -… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“We are each, then, a sentence within the boundless book of humanity. The question is… What will our sentence read, how eloquently… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
“Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn't know whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he'd longed for… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us n rely not on ourselves o but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I threw my arms around him. “I yearn only for you.” Quinton gave a self-conscious shrug and an embarrassed laugh. “I feel… — Kat Richardson Copy Share Image
“Ah!" returned the man, with a relish; "he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“...if he fell, well, he fell—but if he survived he would become a monument, not carved in stone or encased in brass,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Nana and Pops were waiting in the living room. They had their recliners pushed in front of the couch, the only place… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“He works fast," Alan commented as he lifted his wine. "David?" Shelby sent him a puzzled look. "Actually his fastest sped is… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Beyond that he was a ghost of Uganda; in this nation of his birth he was under a death sentence for the… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“He would think of it later, he thought; one moves step by step and one must keep moving. For the moment, with… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
