Sentences Quotes · Page 8

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

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

— Bhartrhari

A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.

— Ben Dolnick

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

— Epictetus

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

— Bo Burnham

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

— Ellen G. White

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

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either,"…

— Jules Verne

There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because…

— Patricia Lockwood

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different…

— Neil Gaiman

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread…

— William Safire

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious…

— Ben Gibbard

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

— Ron Paul

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.…

— Don DeLillo

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

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or…

— Lysander Spooner

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…

— G. M. Trevelyan

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

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all…

— Jimmy Breslin

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

The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I…

— Rheta Grimsley Johnson

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:…

— William Shakespeare

In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it…

— E. M. Forster

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a…

— Salman Rushdie

Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and…

— Linnea Sinclair

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

— Rob Bell

“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.”

— David Mitchell

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

— Lynne Tillman

“It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.”

— John Irving

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

— Howard Dean

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

— Gary Soto

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

— William Gibson

“..the four sentences that lead to wisdom. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.”

— Louise Penny