#sentence

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. ↗

— Ted Danson

#comfortable #i #little #me #more

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#every #finally #gets #how #know

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#brain #line #make #music #rhythm

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. ↗

— Len Wein

#captivating #encapsulate #general #halfway #home

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#certain #certain time #documents #got #important

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#longer #murder #people #sentence #served

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #define #end #first #i

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#first-sentence #family

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