(221 quotes found)
“It's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down”
Winston Churchill
“I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.”
“Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.”
Oscar Wilde
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”
Gloria Naylor
“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
Henry David Thoreau
“What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?”
Kahlil Gibran
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”
Letitia Landon
“The rhythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by”
Peter Kropotkin
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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