Sentences Quotes · Page 56

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

— Aleister Crowley

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Robert Breault

The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings,…

— Craig Clevenger

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

— Joe Biden

When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of…

— William James

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like…

— Susan Orlean

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

— Anne Carson

You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just…

— Anne Lamott

I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in…

— Mitch Albom

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

— William Zinsser

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right…

— Thomas Hobbes

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I…

— Per Petterson

If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or…

— Lynda Barry

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers…

— Bob Newhart

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

— Noam Chomsky

The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I…

— Paul Reiser

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

— Barbara Tuchman

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

— Anatole France

In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.

— Robert Henryson

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a…

— Leonard Cohen

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering…

— Mitch Albom

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

— Julie Payette

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by…

— Brigham Young