Quotes of: Sentencing Keyword

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that's career suicide.

Stephen Baldwin

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Arthur Brisbane

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

Anthony Horowitz

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED! This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

Amy Poehler

A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...

Love

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Anne Enright

Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.

Alcohemy: The Solution to Ending Your Alcohol Habit for Good--Privately, Discreetly, and Fully in Control

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness." ( )

Works of Samuel Johnson

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Terry Pratchett

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

Lewis Black

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Michael Cunningham

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

Jenny Shipley

I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

Cory Booker

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

Zadie Smith

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

Sarah Fielding

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

Bob Graham

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Patrick White

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

Ryan Reynolds

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

Anne McCaffrey

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

Dick Cavett