Sentences Quotes · Page 50

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo…

— George Will

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

— Zig Ziglar

I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and…

— William T. Vollmann

“Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence. ”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has…

— Melissa Bank

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Christopher Titus

There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American…

— Jonathan Franzen

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every…

— Alexander Woollcott

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

— Nelson DeMille

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it…

— Mark Twain

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a…

— Kevin Barry

In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked…

— Lydia Davis

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots

— Jason Schwartzman

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

— Rush Limbaugh

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence,…

— Keith Gessen

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence…

— Peter Straub

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger…

— Jane Hirshfield

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

— Peter Straub

...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out…

— Pat Conroy

In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his…

— Sam Abell

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

— Dana Spiotta

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

— Christopher Pike

It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected…

— Leopold Stokowski