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My hobbies are run-on sentences.
-- Adam Sandler

#Running #Hobbies #Sentences

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
-- Alexander Smith

#Memorable #Accounts #Sentences

As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.
-- Amy Hempel

#Would Be #Moments #Sentences

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

#Sentences #Moved

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
-- Anatole France

#Writing #Editing #Sentences

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
-- Andy Rooney

#Writing #Should #Sentences

No" is a complete sentence.
-- Anne Lamott

#Health #Inspire #Sentences

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.
-- Aravind Adiga

#Philosophy #Animal #Sentences

A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
-- Berton Braley

#Ends #Prepositions #Sentences

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
-- Bonnie Friedman

#Writing #Successful #Sentences

No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
-- C. N. Annadurai

#Ends #Conjunctions #Sentences

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.
-- Channing Tatum

#Young #Sentences #Ads

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
-- Chris Hayes

#Way #Kind #Sentences

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Writing #Composing #Sentences

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.
-- Claude Rains

#Robins #Death Sentence #Sentences

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
-- Claude Simon

#Bigs #Chores #Sentences

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
-- Clifford Geertz

#Paragraph #Satisfied #Sentences

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.
-- David Bayles

#Art #Art Is #Sentences

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.
-- David Foster Wallace

#Writing #Innocent #Sentences

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.
-- David Rabe

#Ideas #Sentences

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
-- David Riesman

#Looks #Sentences

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
-- Don DeLillo

#Waiting #Ends #Sentences

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

#People #Sentences

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

#Sentences

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
-- Douglas Horton

#Behavior #Pardon #Sentences

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
-- Eddie Cantor

#Matrimony #Sentences

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?
-- Edith Pearlman

#Hours #Sentences

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
-- Ella Maillart

#Mould #Refuse #Sentences

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
-- Emma Donoghue

#Made #Sentences

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Accomplished #Ask Me #Sentences

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

#Prison #1960s #Sentences

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
-- Gary Soto

#Writing #Firsts #Sentences

I drank that sentence and began to glow.
-- Gary Soto

#Drank #Sentences

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
-- George W. Bush

#Men #Gone #Sentences

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Exciting #Sentences

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
-- Gillian Flynn

#Ends #Periods #Sentences

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
-- Giordano Bruno

#Fear #Atheism #Sentences

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
-- Giordano Bruno

#Knowledge #Sentences

Don't have stories; have sentences.
-- Gordon Lish

#Stories #Sentences

This is the end of our sentence
-- Grant Morrison

#Ends #Sentences

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
-- Gretchen Rubin

#Tact #Offense #Sentences

The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it
-- Hans Bellmer

#Body #Sentences

It helps to read the sentence aloud.
-- Harry Kemelman

#Writing #Helping #Sentences

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Ends #Should #Sentences

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
-- Jacques Lacan

#Lasts #Term #Sentences

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
-- James J. Kilpatrick

#Book #Feels #Sentences

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
-- James Schuyler

#Poetry #Prose #Sentences

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
-- James Thurber

#Method #Opening #Sentences

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
-- Janet Flanner

#Nagging #Sentences #Keep Going

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Book #Connected #Sentences

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
-- Jimmy Breslin

#Boring #Newspapers #Sentences

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
-- Jincy Willett

#Writing #Sentences

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
-- John Banville

#Invention #Sentences #Humans

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
-- John Diamond

#Cancer #Sentences

Life as we know it is a death sentence.
-- Joseph Curiale

#Life #Death Sentence #Sentences

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
-- Jules Renard

#Coins #Currency #Sentences

Life--a lifelong death sentence.
-- Julian Tuwim

#Lifelong #Death Sentence #Sentences

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

#Sentences

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
-- Keith Gessen

#Thinking #Genius #Sentences

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor

#Marriage #Sentences

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
-- King Vidor

#Sentences

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
-- Larry Wall

#Writing #Use #Sentences

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
-- Lewis Carroll

#Firsts #Sentences

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

#Want #Sentences

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.
-- Liv Tyler

#Diaries #Disaster #Sentences

Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
-- Lois Wyse

#Advice #May #Sentences

In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too ...
-- Lydia Davis

#Struggle #Winning #Sentences

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.
-- Lyn Hejinian

#Stories #Sentences

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Forget #Middle #Sentences

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.
-- Margaret Culkin Banning

#Sentences

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death
-- Markus Zusak

#Sorry #Asking #Sentences

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
-- Mary Oliver

#Sentences

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

#Sentences

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Regret #Ends #Sentences

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
-- Michael Hastings

#Stories #Should #Sentences

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.
-- Miller Williams

#Add #Sentences

There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.
-- Moira J. Moore

#Alliteration #Sentences

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
-- Nancy Grace

#Different #Educated #Sentences

The death sentence is a barbaric act.
-- Nelson Mandela

#Death Penalty #Sentences #Death Sentence

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
-- Nigella Lawson

#Injustice #Vicious #Sentences

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Death #Trials #Sentences

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.
-- Pete Sampras

#Goal #One Day #Sentences

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
-- Peter Straub

#Writing #Sentences

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
-- Philip K. Dick

#Sentences #Persons

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Infinite #Makers #Sentences

Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
-- Randy Pausch

#Talking #People #Sentences

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
-- Richard Flanagan

#Mean #One Sentence #Sentences

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
-- Richard Powers

#States #Equal #Sentences

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
-- Robert Breault

#Aphorism #Subjects #Sentences

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
-- Robert Gottlieb

#People #Fixed #Sentences

In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.
-- Robert Henryson

#Sentences #Pregnant

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.
-- Simon Wiesenthal

#Crime #Jew #Sentences

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

#Sentences

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.
-- Stanley Fish

#Sentences

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.
-- Stephen Amell

#Names #Roles #Sentences

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?
-- Susan Howe

#Order #Structure #Sentences

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
-- Toni Morrison

#Connotation #Rely #Sentences

Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence
-- Tony Horton

#Bananas #Hammocks #Sentences

If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.
-- Vanessa Hudgens

#Sense Of Humor #If You Really Love Someone #Sentences

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.
-- Wayne Dyer

#Want #World #Sentences