#sentences

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. ↗

— James Callaghan

#command #course #economy #every #goes

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

Vigorous writing is concise. 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.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverbs #sentences

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#frankly #other #people #sentences #start

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#i #imprison #mould #our #refuse

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #book #create #different #effects

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it. ↗

— Franka Potente

#any #emotional #especially #feel #having

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#ear #engage #equal #fiction #inner

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.' ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#because #creating #criminals #deals #deserve