#sentence

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#drawing #lines #machine #paragraph #parts

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#each #focused #itself #scene #sentences

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#denial #found #happened #i #myself

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#fair #fair trial #had #high #high office

What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

#deception

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#argue #best #dinner #exploring #movies

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

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