Sentences Quotes · Page 5

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

— Jai Rodriguez

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

— William H. Gass

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

— Gertrude Stein

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

— Harry Kemelman

Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

— Henry David Thoreau

I drank that sentence and began to glow.

— Gary Soto

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

— Sylvia Plath

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

— Ernest Hemingway

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

— Sarah Addison Allen

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

— Paula White

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

— Kathy Ireland

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

— William Shenstone

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

— Douglas Hofstadter

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

— Robert Breault

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like…

— Eduardo Galeano

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of…

— Richard K. Morgan

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it.…

— Frank McCourt

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes…

— Toby Jones

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the…

— A.J. Ayer

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my…

— John Milton

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to…

— Greg Iles

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it…

— David Bezmozgis

The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences.…

— David Gerrold

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves…

— Seth Godin

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of…

— John Irving

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To…

— Tom Robbins

A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start…

— Jimmy Fallon

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to…

— Jean Rhys

I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm…

— Christopher Hitchens

Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It…

— Lee Strobel

I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force…

— Elif Batuman

I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get…

— Steve Martin

The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as…

— Lewis Thomas

So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of…

— Shunryu Suzuki

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…

— George R. R. Martin

Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;…

— Aleister Crowley

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify…

— Gautama Buddha