Sentences Quotes

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

No" is a complete sentence.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

Can we not say 'dumped' and 'Bellas' in the same sentence, please?

My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

A clear sentence is no accident.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

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.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

My sentence is for open war.

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"