Top 876 Sentences Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

I say 'sorry' all the time. I just throw it into sentences.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

First sentences are doors to worlds.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Suspect all of your favorite sentences.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

My hobbies are run-on sentences.

Suspect all your favorite sentences.

The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and what the language is; not just the last sentence, but enough of the sentences surrounding that last sentence to know what the tone of voice is. I imagined it as something almost musical. Then you are writing toward something; you know the sound of your voice at the end of the story. That's how you want to sound in those final sentences: the degree that it is uplifting or not, the degree that it is melancholic or not.

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

I'm always thinking about being inclusive in my sentences.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Every Saturday I read sentences in SPIEGEL that lack clarity.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Don't have stories; have sentences.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

Words are useless, especially sentences.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.