Sentences Quotes

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

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.