Sentence Quotes

1003 Sentence quotes by 732 unique authors

The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. — Don DeLillo
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the… — Benjamin Franklin
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as… — Jorge Luis Borges
I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. — Gillian Flynn
I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you… — Alice Munro
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The… — Jack White
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming… — William Allen White
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’ — Thomas S. Monson
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. — Carl Hiaasen
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model… — John Tukey
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a… — Jane Hirshfield
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that… — Marie Howe
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely… — Howard Dean
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but… — Stephen C. Meyer
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it — Clifford Geertz
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,… — Elwyn Brooks White
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Unknown Author
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to… — Lewis Carroll

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