Quotes of: Sentencing Keyword

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

Amy Bloom

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

Steve Martin

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Jim Elliot

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Ayn Rand

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

Geraldine Brooks

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Colm Toibin

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Jacques Barzun

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

Gian-Carlo Rota

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Howard Dean

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

Jeff Sessions

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

James Thurber

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Don DeLillo

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

Steven Sinofsky

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

LA Judge: [to Wade] This court sentences you to three years in state prison.

Felon

Virginia Woolf: Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence.

The Hours

June: I like words and letters, but I'm not crazy about complete sentences.

The Player

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Nicholson Baker

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Zig Ziglar