Famous Quotes & Sayings

If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar.

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Colleen Hoover

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

There are a lot of things you can be doing with your kids. We want them to write sentences by the end of kindergarten.

Per Petterson

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Lara Stone

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

King Vidor

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Stanley Fish

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Stanley Fish

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

Mary Oliver

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Victor Hugo

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

For that reason, this sentence should be welcomed.

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

John Green

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.