Sentence Quotes

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Vigorous writing is concise. 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.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.