(225 quotes found)
“(I want him to be sentenced to) life in prison. I don't want the death penalty. I want him to live to be an old man in prison and I want him to fear for his life every day, just as Julie feared for hers.”
Peggy White
“Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style”
Mark Twain
“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get”
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”
“It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no”
“A man cannot utter 2 or 3 sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought . . .”
“The essence of most books can be summed up in one sentence.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“Judge yourself fairly. Sentence yourself lightly. Pardon yourself often.”
Rodney Lovell
