Sentences Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The best sentence? The shortest.

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

I drank that sentence and began to glow.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

First sentences are doors to worlds.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.