Quotes of: Sentencing Keyword

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

A Game of Thrones

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

Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

A brick could be used as a period on a really large sentence. A blanket could be used as a really large tilde sign.  

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

The Book Thief

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Jonathan Ames

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

Jacob's Room

Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.

Shaping the dream

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

Oryx and Crake

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

The Library at Night

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

Orlando

Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

Posthumous

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences

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

The White Tiger

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

Nathaniel Philbrick

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

In the Skin of a Lion

If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.

Scratch - with Audio Theater and Links

If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentenc...

Olaotan Fawehinmi

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Philip Johnson