84 Quotes About Sentences

The hardest thing is the words, how long it takes, he says, taking a sip of his drink, the concentration you need to work out what goes with what, how to put together a single sentence. I had no idea that shaping a sentence was so difficult, all the possible ways there are to do i, even the simplest sentence, as soon as it's written down, all the hesitations, all the problems. (Mickey Mantle describing writing his memoir.)

I've touched some sentences and have kissed some words.

A group of sentences joined together is like a mob: up to no good.

I confine time to the sentences...A poet I am, I paint dreams, I seize dreams!

Leave no "full stop" in between the sentences that make up your life story. If anything, let "commas" show that when you were brought down by challenges, you rose up with passion and moved on again!

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

If you fold the sentence sure you will see the other side but for sure you will loose the beauty of original one..

The English critic George Saintsbury once compared the act of sentence making--the letting out and pulling in of clauses--to the letting out and pulling in of the slide of a trombone or the "draws" of a telescope.

Take your hands off my sentences, asshole. I sweat blood for that shit.