Sentence Quotes - page 9

I have been with the Court all my life, travelling with the King's Progress. I didn't know how to go on. I sat and stared at this sentence, until Grundo said, "If you can't do it, I will." If you didn't know Grundo, you'd think this was a generous offer, but it was a threat really. Grundo is dyslexic. Unless he thinks hard, he writes inside out and backwards. He was threatening me with half a page of crooked writing with words like "inside" turning up as "sindie" and "story" as "otsyr". (Diana Wynne Jones)
If now I...say "Stealing money is wrong," I produce a sentence which has no factual meaning - that is, expresses no proposition which can be either true or false. It is as if I had written "Stealing money!!" - where the shape and thickness of the exclamation marks show, by a suitable convention, that a special sort of moral disapproval is the feeling which is being expressed. View quote
Alfred Jules Ayer
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be. View quote
Woody Allen
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' View quote
Wilson Mizner
The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities. View quote
T. E. Hulme
It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence. View quote
J. L. Austin
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. View quote
Marianne Moore
I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: ‘He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.' This sentence truly describes the character of that glorious man of God. Among all those who have been born of women, there has not risen a greater than John Calvin; no age, before him ever produced his equal, and no age afterwards has seen his rival. In theology, he stands alone, shining like a bright fixed star, while other leaders and teachers can only circle round him, at a great distance - as comets go streaming through space - with nothing like his glory or his permanence. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. View quote
Jean Rostand
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. View quote
Frederic William Farrar
"I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through." This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art,... That, and I know how to use a dictionary. View quote
Richelle Mead
I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
the only man woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead” beautiful Warren Gamaliel Harding "is” dead he's "dead”. View quote
E. E. Cummings
People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved. View quote
Stanley Fish
What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment. View quote
Stanley Fish
Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors. View quote
Stanley Fish
The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows. View quote
Stanley Fish
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items. View quote
Stanley Fish
It is justified to consider the Nürnberg trials a farce. Guilt was decided in advance, and the justifications for the sentences were absurd. For an example Alber Speer (an architect) got a long sentence since he knew about the holocaust but didn't try to prevent it. As if a person living in a dictatorship should fight against the dictatorship even if it costs his life. View quote
Jussi Halla-aho
I began my previous Beliefnet column with the line, "Throughout history, religion has been the single greatest source of human-caused wars, suffering, and misery. In the name of God, more suffering has been inflicted than by any other manmade cause." I was, of course, using the word "religion" in its sociological meaning, as any belief invested with "ultimate concern," in which case not only Islam, Christianity, and Shintoism are religions, but Marxism, Nazism, and Eco-terrorism are all versions of religions or religiously held beliefs. Seen as such, the opening sentence is obviously true. (Ken Wilber)
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. View quote
Don DeLillo
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. View quote
Don DeLillo
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. View quote
Don DeLillo
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. View quote
Don DeLillo