Sentences Quotes · Page 7

Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo?

— Dov Davidoff

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

— Nelson Mandela

There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.

— Moira J. Moore

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

— Mati Klarwein

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

— Markus Zusak

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

— Roy Peter Clark

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Nelson DeMille

Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up…

— Anonymous

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them…

— Pete Sampras

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this…

— Eli Roth

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

— Garrison Wynn

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a…

— John Irving

The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or…

— Anonymous

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm…

— Ron Chernow

In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two… That's why my place in the…

— Billie Jean King

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to…

— Walter Wriston

... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a…

— Milan Kundera

The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in…

— Ron Paul

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been…

— Peter Kropotkin

I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who…

— Howard Dean

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these…

— Stephen King

“Sentences are made wonderfully one at a time. Who makes them. Nobody can make them because nobody can what ever they do…

— Gertrude Stein

I have reflected a great deal on that event, and continue to do so. I cannot give you a complete answer in…

— John I. Jenkins

If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was…

— Jim Butcher

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper…

— Paul Halmos

The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should…

— Kay Coles James

We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim…

— Felix Dzerzhinsky

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

— Michael Cunningham

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

— Jim Harrison

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

— Friedrich Schiller

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

— Samuel Johnson

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

— John Adams

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

— Laurence Sterne

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

— Joe Biden

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

— Ayn Rand