Single Sentence Quotes

42 quotes by 41 authors

I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have… — Louis Agassiz
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist… — Karl Marx
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling… — Richard P. Feynman
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it… — Brenda Ueland
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story… — John Steinbeck
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. — Scott Turow
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and worst fears usually… — Ralph Lombreglia
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 think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life… — Bo Lozoff
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And… — Nicole Krauss
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked… — E. M. Forster
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single… — Robert South
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose… — Edward Zwick
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
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
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
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert

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