Sentences Quotes

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

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.

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

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.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

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

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

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