Sentence Quotes - page 5

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. (Aidan Chambers)
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. View quote
Albert Wynn
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. View quote
Douglas Horton
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. View quote
F. L. Lucas
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. View quote
Florence Ellinwood Allen
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. View quote
Helen Hunt
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. View quote
James Schuyler
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. View quote
Janet Flanner
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots. View quote
Jason Schwartzman
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it. View quote
Jeff Daniels
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. (Jock Sturges)
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English. View quote
Louis Begley
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. View quote
Laura Marling
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. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. View quote
Masa Takayama
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. View quote
Michael Hastings
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job. View quote
Trey Gowdy
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. View quote
William Strunk, Jr.
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. View quote
Yusuf Hamied
Once I reveled in a destiny like no other joy I'd known: when the warden - reading my death sentence - wept. (José Martí)
Over the door of his room he caused this sentence to be inscribed: "lnnocuex vivito--- Numen Adest!" He always entertained veneration and admiration for his Creator, and endeavoured to trace his science to its Author. "Tu decus omne tuis, postquam te fata tulere." (Virgilio) View quote
Carl Linnaeus
If society is the prison, families are the cells, with no time off for good behavior. Good behavior in fact tends to lengthen the sentence. View quote
John Updike
The world 'bubble' is in the dictionary, as is the word 'peacock,' the word 'vacation,' and the words 'the,' 'author's,' 'execution,' 'has,' 'been,' 'canceled,' which make up a sentence that is always pleasant to hear. So, if you were to read the dictionary, rather than this book, you could skip the parts about 'nervous' and 'anxious' and read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night, weeping and tearing your hair out. But this book is not a dictionary, and if you were to skip the parts about 'nervous' and 'anxious' you would be skipping the most pleasant parts of the entire story. Nowhere in this book will you find the words 'bubble,' 'peacock,' 'vacation,' or, unfortunately for me, anything about an execution being canceled. View quote
Daniel Handler
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. View quote
Charles Churchill (satirist)