Quotes About Sentence

Donald's monstrosity is the manifestation of the very weakness within him that he's been running from his entire life. For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength, no matter how illusory, because doing anything else carries a death sentence; my father's short life is evidence of that.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

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.

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

As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter: genuine clarity genuine feeling the right word the exact English sentence the eloquent detail the rigorous dramatization of story

Never end a sentence with a preposition, Sobel. You don't wanna say, 'gave the plumbers new grounds to bargain on.' You wanna say, 'gave the plumbers new grounds on which to bargain.

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: Of course it is none of my business, but -- is to place a period after the word but.

It's a death sentence," Nicko said. "She's accusing us of everything but stopping up the royal sink.

A death sentence was a death sentence, no matter how carefully it was worded.

St. Hans 1948. I dag har Høyesterett dømt, og jeg ender min skrivning.

Those hard-eyed women had been hurt by men. Jane recognized it in them with perfect clarity, because this very mirror reflected the same quality growing in her own eyes every day. She could finally acknowledge that. She would do whatever it took to avoid that fate. Bitterness was a life sentence, and it was one that was entirely avoidable.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

Each word a world, a world bleeding through from some other place, a conduit and an entry point, if you only knew how to use them, the coordinates the biologist now used in her far journeying. Each sentence a merciless healing, a ruthless rebuilding that could not be denied.

I had wanted something from him. Even expected a confrontation. To be ignored was a sentence without a period.

Every symptom is a word in the language of disease, but sometimes we can't hear them properly. And even if we do, we can't always make out the full sentence... So we just shush them, one word at a time.

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

Bet kai tik kieno nors žvilgsnis, šypsena, sakinys, gestas atkreipia m?s? d?mes?, m?s? vaizduot?, nepaisydama valios, jau ir ima ?žvelgti anapus j? slypin?ias galimybes. Šit moteris mums dav? dingst? - nors ir menk? - tik?tis.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.