Sentences Quotes - Page 36

• They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

  Ayn Rand

  Voice, Relaxation, Sound

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.319, Penguin

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• There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you just said.” He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn’t speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.

  Julia Quinn

  Saws, Reason Why, Arms

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.80, Harlequin

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, People, Missing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way.

  Muriel Barbery

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, www.e-reading.club. 2006.

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• Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Writing, Wind, Together

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• That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

  John Green

  Book, Way, Death And Dying

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.67, Penguin

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

  John Piper

  Book, People, Sometimes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.13, Multnomah

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• He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights that ringed the mirror lit up the message in a warm glow. It was two short sentences: " KILL ME. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN MY FRIEND, KILL ME.

  James Dashner

  Mirrors, Light, Two

  James Dashner (2013). “The Maze Runner Complete Collection”, p.1064, Chicken House

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• If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

  Paula McLain

  Writing, Simple, One Sentence

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).

  Fernando Pessoa

  Home, Perfect, Remember

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• One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Age, Might, Accepting

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hurt, Home, Color

  Samuel R. Delany (1969). “Babel-17”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

  Jules Verne

  Uncles, Sleep, Dear

  Jules Verne (1911). “A trip to the center of the earth. Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The English at the North pole”

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• Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Writing, Names

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• He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Reading, Long

  Anne Rice (2012). “The Wolf Gift”, p.373, Random House

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• Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Giving, Battle

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• I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Style, Enjoy

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• Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

  Li-Young Lee

  Want

  Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.77, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form.Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not happening." He considered me,annoyed and at a loss for what to do next."I don't kill humans." "Me niether!See,common ground already.

  Kiersten White

  Loss, Annoyed, Next

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• Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

  David Mitchell

  Teacher, Jobs, Hate

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• She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Mouths, Lasts

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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• By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reading, Land, World

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.221, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

  Anne Carson

  Dream, Writing, Keys

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• It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

  Joss Whedon

  Hate, Two

  Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty (2007). “Buffy Season Eight Volume 1: The Long Way Home”, p.104, Dark Horse Comics

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