Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
What Labor has said very clearly is that there should be up to life sentences for people who traffic in guns.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.
When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime.
"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."
Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.
My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.
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.
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?
The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.
I don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.
Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.
Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.
Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
We are all Ahmaud Arbery. Everyday activities should not end in death sentences. We must hold people responsible for their actions.
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.