Sentences Quotes · Page 27

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir…

— J. I. Packer

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

— Zadie Smith

The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to…

— Jean Dujardin

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at…

— Jami Attenberg

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States,…

— Dick Cavett

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche…

— Jackson Browne

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second…

— Arthur Brisbane

Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use…

— Julie James

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to…

— Joshua Bloch

For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on…

— Tommy Wiseau

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible…

— Arthur Eddington

My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of…

— George Saunders

She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and…

— Tom Waits

If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully…

— Eugene H. Peterson

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. I'm trying always to leave out what I think…

— Lynne Tillman

In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And…

— Tertullian

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So sentences are copied, constructed, or created; they are uttered, mentioned, or used; each says, means, implies, reveals, connects; each titillates, invites,…

— William H. Gass

The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and…

— Brennan Manning

The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay…

— Walter Moers

The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…

— E. M. Forster

When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed…

— Elton John

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

— Donald Glover

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take…

— Jonathan Franzen

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them…

— Elizabeth I

“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic…

— Amy Sedaris

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up…

— David Mermin

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the…

— Brian P. Cleary

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But…

— Jonathan Sacks

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying…

— Tad Williams

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he…

— Christopher Titus

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single…

— Bo Lozoff

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will…

— Albert Wynn

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the…

— E. L. Doctorow