Sentences Quotes
1223 quotes by 892 authors
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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
— John Banville
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,…
— Charles A. Beard
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You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
— Lewis Black
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28…
— Anthony Bourdain
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
— Albert Brooks
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
— Geraldine Brooks
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
— Jackson Browne
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
— Charles Bukowski
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
— Christopher Alexander
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I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is…
— James Callaghan
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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
— George Carlin
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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