Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Pete Wentz

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Lara Stone

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

Mary Oliver

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Matt Groening

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

John Green

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

Kathy Ireland

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

For that reason, this sentence should be welcomed.

King Vidor

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Stanley Fish

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Stanley Fish

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

Victor Hugo

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