Sentence Quotes - page 18

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it. (Edward P. Jones)
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium. View quote
Gideon Defoe
I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face. View quote
Gillian Jacobs
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. View quote
Gloria Naylor
It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis. View quote
Garrett Hedlund
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend. View quote
Jeffrey Rowland
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? View quote
Jimmy Breslin
Just start the sentence... and see what happens. This is how we write. View quote
Jincy Willett
There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence. View quote
Jon Scieszka
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence. View quote
Jonathan Dee
'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. (Jonathan Raban)
Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, "you know I love you dearly-” "Why is it,” Violet pondered, "that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner? View quote
Julia Quinn
I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. View quote
Julian Clary
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. View quote
Jai Rodriguez
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing. View quote
James Belushi
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that. View quote
Keren Ann
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning. View quote
Kristin Scott Thomas
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time. View quote
Lianne La Havas
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. View quote
Laura Linney
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. (Mark Boal)
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. View quote
Malik Bendjelloul
When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.' View quote
Mandy Moore
And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year. View quote
Marek Belka
America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence. View quote
Jackie Walorski