Sentences Quotes - Page 34

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

  Tom Robbins

  Writing

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• I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Sound, Again And Again

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• A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.

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• There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

  Ellen G. White

  Chains, Written

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

  John Olsen

  Art, Thinking, Together

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• Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence

  Tony Horton

  Hammocks, Bananas

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

  David Riesman

  Looks, Questioning, Seems

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• The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

  Confucius

  Heaven, Earth, May

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.420, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Husband, Character

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

  Dana Spiotta

  Creating, Challenges, World

  Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Together, Links

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• Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

  Shane Koyczan

  Reflection, Mirrors, Looks

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• Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.

  William Shunn

  Writing, Three, Littles

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• There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

  Richard Flanagan

  Mean, One Sentence

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.141, Vintage

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Blow, Cells, People

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• Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

  Constance Hale

  Giving, Choices, Our Words

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• Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.

  Constance Hale

  Vocabulary, Appreciate, Giving

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• A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

  Constance Hale

  Lying, Differences, Energy

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• There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

  Constance Hale

  Play, Ideas, Style

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• Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.

  Constance Hale

  Dream, Struggle, Sea

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• I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Feelings

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• Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

  Brian Eno

  Long, Listening, Stories

  "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.

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• I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

  Etheridge Knight

  Prison, 1960s, Died

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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• What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.

  Joshua Bloch

  Expression, Names, Variables

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