Sentences Quotes · Page 16

Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’

— Thomas S. Monson

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

— Masa Takayama

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

— H. L. Mencken

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

— Jodi Picoult

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

— Robert Gottlieb

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

— Zig Ziglar

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

— Pamela Anderson

I say 'sorry' all the time. I just throw it into sentences.

— Kate Herron

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of…

— Jeremy Bentham

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what…

— Don DeLillo

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

— Peter Carey

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My…

— Denis Johnson

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,…

— Carol Burnett

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

— Elie Wiesel

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him…

— Gordon S. Wood

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips…

— Martin Gardner

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become…

— William Zinsser

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable…

— William James

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As…

— Edward Gorey

I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere,…

— Ingmar Bergman

When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they…

— Frank Luntz

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a…

— Roald Dahl

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would…

— Richard Meltzer

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets…

— Swami Vivekananda

[Bill] Clinton and Vernon Jordan were talking about "the kitty," the pussycat every other sentence. Vernon got Monica [Lewinsky] a gig somewhere…

— Rush Limbaugh

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker…

— Anonymous

When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that…

— Noam Chomsky

Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,…

— M. Scott Peck

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from…

— Anonymous

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

— Winston Churchill

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

— Giordano Bruno

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

— Dana Spiotta

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

— Joseph Beach

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

— Emma Donoghue

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Philip K. Dick

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

— Anatole France