#sentence

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#back #came #could #death #dublin

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#like #memory #nails #our #sentences

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

— Niels Bohr

#every #i #must #question #sentence

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? ↗

— Jackson Browne

#english #english language #heard #language #least

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#film #give #i #i think #insulting

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#devil #fact #facts #god #great

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverb #sentence

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#away #because #call #dance #down

It’s funny how one summer can change everything. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#opening-lines #change

...there are just some people you cannot find the good in. But who am I to decide if someone should be killed for murdering a child...instead of for murdering a drug addict during a deal that went bad...or even if we should be killing the inmate himself? I'm not smart enough to be able to say which life is worth more than the other. I don't know if anyone is. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change