Top 1200 Sentence Structure Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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.
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.
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.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'
It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".
Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'
If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.
I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.
I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.
There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.
And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.
A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.
If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
I will continue to need operations and therapy for life. For acid attack survivors, the aftermath is a life sentence.
You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result.
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that.
When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no.
We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo?
Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.
Most of the musicians I play with - aside from the form and structure of the music - the interpretation is up to them.
I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.
I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure.
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.
The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.
