#sentence

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#full #i #language #meaning #myself

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#contracted #effect #i #illness #institutions

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals. ↗

— Laura Shapiro

#food #food

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. ↗

— James Dickey

#deprived #detachment #entitled #feel #feeling

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#content #define #genius #his #inspiration

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. ↗

— Mark Boal

#easiest thing #figure #four #just #later

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#every #i #must #question #sentence

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#accept #bitterness #could #deserve #did

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#daily #editorial #foreign #i #mail