Sentence Quotes

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.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

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.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

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.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

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.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

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.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

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.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

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.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

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.