Sentence Quotes

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. (Niels Bohr)
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. View quote
Horace Mann
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. View quote
Karl Marx
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. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. View quote
James Thurber
I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? View quote
George Carlin
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. View quote
Alexander Pope
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! View quote
Roland Barthes
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. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.' (Barack Obama)
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. View quote
John Jakes
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. View quote
James Thurber
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. View quote
Ayn Rand
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal. View quote
Lewis Black
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. View quote
Lionel Trilling
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Sentence first, verdict afterwards. View quote
Lewis Carroll
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. (Wisława Szymborska)
A sentence always means more. Even a single word, within the weave of incommensurable connotation, can, and usually does. View quote
George Steiner
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. View quote
Isadora Duncan
A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. View quote
Mark Twain