Sentence Quotes – City of Quotes

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you’ve got it right.

Tom Sturridge

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you’ve got it right.

Tom Sturridge

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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Colm Toibin

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Colm Toibin

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You don’t want another Enron? Here’s your law: If a company, can’t explain, in one sentence, what it does… it’s illegal.

Lewis Black

You don’t want another Enron? Here’s your law: If a company, can’t explain, in one sentence, what it does… it’s illegal.

Lewis Black

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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Steve Martin

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Steve Martin

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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

John Banville

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

John Banville

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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Salman Rushdie

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Salman Rushdie

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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

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If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

Nancy Grace

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

Nancy Grace

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I love what I did in ‘Death Sentence,’ but that was a low budget action film.

James Wan

I love what I did in ‘Death Sentence,’ but that was a low budget action film.

James Wan

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‘No’ is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

Amitabh Bachchan

‘No’ is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

Amitabh Bachchan

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True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Zig Ziglar

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Zig Ziglar

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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I’m satisfied with it.

Clifford Geertz

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I’m satisfied with it.

Clifford Geertz

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I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it’s just tough and almost emotionally violent – for anyone, I think – to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

Ryan Reynolds

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it’s just tough and almost emotionally violent – for anyone, I think – to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

Ryan Reynolds

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I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

Brian Greene

I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

Brian Greene

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I still don’t know whether I know how to write a sentence.

Ethan Canin

I still don’t know whether I know how to write a sentence.

Ethan Canin

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You hear the word ‘cancer,’ and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

Clare Balding

You hear the word ‘cancer,’ and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

Clare Balding

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I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

Billie Eilish

I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

Billie Eilish

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The first sentence of a book is a promise.

Barbara Kingsolver

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It’s very stressful.

Jet Li

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It’s very stressful.

Jet Li

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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

V. S. Naipaul

I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

V. S. Naipaul

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#sentence 69

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you’ve got it right.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

You don’t want another Enron? Here’s your law: If a company, can’t explain, in one sentence, what it does… it’s illegal.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

I love what I did in ‘Death Sentence,’ but that was a low budget action film.

‘No’ is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I’m satisfied with it.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it’s just tough and almost emotionally violent – for anyone, I think – to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

I still don’t know whether I know how to write a sentence.

You hear the word ‘cancer,’ and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It’s very stressful.

I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.