Sentences Quotes

Sentences Quote of the day

No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

No one wants to go out mid-sentence.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.