#sentence

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#brain #dependent #eternal #evidence #hard

Sentences are not as such either true or false. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#false #sentences #such #true

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#having #innocence #language #like #long

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing. ↗

— James Belushi

#brother #coming #i #i love #i love you

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#compound #going #got #i #me

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#i #put #sentence #something #up

The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#first-sentence #fugitive #family

There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#family

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#food #food