Sentences Quotes · Page 39

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

— Mason Cooley

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether…

— Lynne Tillman

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence…

— Anonymous

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

— Elizabeth Crook

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh,…

— Brian Eno

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is…

— Vivian Gornick

The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence…

— Mother Teresa

Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to…

— Brian Kernighan

With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you…

— Kevin Brockmeier

To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle…

— Eric Maisel

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in…

— John Thorn

I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know.…

— John Sayles

I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about…

— Ann Goldstein

Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and…

— Ralph Lombreglia

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and…

— Christopher Darden

Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice.…

— Errol Morris

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it…

— Philip Roth

We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed…

— Michelle Alexander

If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put…

— Pope Innocent III

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Winston Churchill

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

— Barrett Wendell

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

— Josh Billings

I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to…

— Louis Armstrong

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try…

— Anthony Bourdain