Sentence Quotes

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

The public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he’s written that can’t be read aloud easily.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn’t communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.