Sentence Quotes

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

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.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

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.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;

Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence.

If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

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

No, no! said the Queen. Sentence first - verdict afterwards.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

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

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

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.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

All this happened, more or less.

Does such a thing as the fatal flaw, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

Every living sentence which shows a mind at work for itself is to be welcomed.

It is not the first use but the tiresome repetition of inadequate catch words which I am observingphrases which originally were contributions, but which, by their very felicity, delay further analysis for fifty years. That comes from the same source as dislike of noveltyintellectual indolence or weaknessa slackening in the eternal pursuit of the more exact.

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

You expect far too much of a first sentence.

Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself.

. . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare.

For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.

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.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.

The public school system: Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.

Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed;

yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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.

From one casual of mine he picked this sentence.

'After dinner, the men moved into the living room'. I explained to the professor that this was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.

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

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.