Sentences quotes
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My hobbies are run-on sentences.
-- Adam Sandler -
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
-- Alexander Smith -
As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.
-- Amy Hempel -
I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
-- Amy Hempel -
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
-- Anatole France -
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
-- Andy Rooney -
No" is a complete sentence.
-- Anne Lamott -
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.
-- Aravind Adiga -
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
-- Berton Braley -
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
-- Bonnie Friedman -
No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
-- C. N. Annadurai -
I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.
-- Channing Tatum -
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Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
-- Chris Hayes -
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.
-- Claude Rains -
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
-- Claude Simon -
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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
-- Clifford Geertz -
Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.
-- David Bayles -
There are very few innocent sentences in writing.
-- David Foster Wallace -
I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.
-- David Rabe -
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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
-- David Riesman -
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
-- Don DeLillo -
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
-- Douglas Coupland -
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
-- Douglas Horton -
Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
-- Eddie Cantor -
I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?
-- Edith Pearlman -
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
-- Ella Maillart -
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...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
-- Emma Donoghue -
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
-- Etheridge Knight -
I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
-- Gary Soto -
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I drank that sentence and began to glow.
-- Gary Soto -
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
-- George W. Bush -
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
-- Gillian Flynn -
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
-- Giordano Bruno -
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
-- Giordano Bruno -
Don't have stories; have sentences.
-- Gordon Lish -
This is the end of our sentence
-- Grant Morrison -
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Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it
-- Hans Bellmer -
It helps to read the sentence aloud.
-- Harry Kemelman -
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
-- James J. Kilpatrick -
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
-- James Schuyler -
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
-- James Thurber -
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
-- Janet Flanner -
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
-- Jimmy Breslin -
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
-- Jincy Willett -
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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 -
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
-- John Diamond -
Life as we know it is a death sentence.
-- Joseph Curiale -
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
-- Jules Renard -
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Life--a lifelong death sentence.
-- Julian Tuwim -
I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.
-- Kathy Ireland -
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 -
Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor -
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Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
-- King Vidor -
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
-- Larry Wall -
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
-- Lewis Carroll -
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
-- Li-Young Lee -
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My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.
-- Liv Tyler -
Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
-- Lois Wyse -
In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too ...
-- Lydia Davis -
To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.
-- Lyn Hejinian -
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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.
-- Margaret Culkin Banning -
I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death
-- Markus Zusak -
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
-- Mary Oliver -
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I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
-- Matt Groening -
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
-- Michael Hastings -
Every word you add dilutes the sentence.
-- Miller Williams -
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There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.
-- Moira J. Moore -
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
-- Nancy Grace -
The death sentence is a barbaric act.
-- Nelson Mandela -
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
-- Nigella Lawson -
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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
-- Oscar Wilde -
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.
-- Pete Sampras -
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
-- Peter Straub -
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
-- Philip K. Dick -
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
-- Randy Pausch -
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
-- Richard Flanagan -
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
-- Richard Powers -
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An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
-- Robert Breault -
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
-- Robert Gottlieb -
In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.
-- Robert Henryson -
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.
-- Simon Wiesenthal -
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Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?
-- Stanley Fish -
Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.
-- Stanley Fish -
I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.
-- Stephen Amell -
Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?
-- Susan Howe -
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
-- Toni Morrison -
Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence
-- Tony Horton -
If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.
-- Vanessa Hudgens -
Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.
-- Wayne Dyer -
