#sentence

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down. ↗

— James Lipton

#down #ever #let us #person #sentence

Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#death

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

— James Schuyler

#however #much #poem #prose #reduced

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#fate #life-sentence #death

It' her life, and she' in the middle of it. ↗

— Esmeralda Santiago

#dreams

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it'll be so long, I'll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#boston-marathon #commas #funny #gatorade #humor

It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any large scale is either figure out a way of getting yourself associated in the audience's mind with their pieties and their sense of 'community,' i.e. ram it home that you're one of THEM; or, alternately, deck and bake yourself into an image configuration so blatant or outrageous that you become a culture myth. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#run-on-sentences #music

There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#sentence #music

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. ↗

— Edwin A. Abbott

#nature