Sentence Quotes

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And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose… — Edward Zwick
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort.… — Charles Spurgeon
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. — Freeman Dyson
No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise. — Eugene Schwartz
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to… — Lionel Trilling
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to… — James Dickey
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. — James J. Kilpatrick
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On… — Don DeLillo
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the… — Leonard Cohen
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases… — Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — William Zinsser
Make no a complete sentence. — Amy Poehler
There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed,… — Harper Lee
High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito… — Martin Cruz Smith
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea… — Charles James
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. — Larry Wall
I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to… — Tim Foreman
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date. — Simon Wiesenthal
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows — Mati Klarwein
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in… — Maria Montessori
I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to… — Asghar Farhadi
PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single… — Max Levchin
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault

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