Sentence Quotes

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

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.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.