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I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect… — Greg Iles
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It… — Etgar Keret
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church… — John McGahern
Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of… — David Crystal
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our… — Michelle Alexander
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. — Matthew Perry
Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me:… — Roland Barthes
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories. — James Patterson
I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence… — William T. Vollmann
I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of. — William Zinsser
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is… — Margaret Thatcher
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. — Keith Gessen
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate! — David Mermin
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a… — Adam Haslett
Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly… — Peter Farb
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. — Masa Takayama
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. — Joey Santiago
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. — Alfred Tarski
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is… — Marianne Moore
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… — Fernando Pessoa
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas

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