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Sentences Quotes

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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
C. N. Annadurai

It is impossible to conclude a statement with 'because' as it is a connecting word.
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2.
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
Janet Flanner

3.
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
Jai Rodriguez

4.
I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
Gary Soto

5.
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
Richard Powers

6.
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
Mary Oliver

7.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Giordano Bruno

8.
No one wants to go out mid-sentence.
Johnny Depp

9.
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
Etheridge Knight

10.
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
Philip K. Dick

11.
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
Li-Young Lee

12.
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
Julie Payette

13.
A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
Berton Braley

14.
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
Douglas Hofstadter

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I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.
William H. Gass

16.
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
Elias Canetti

17.
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Claude Simon

18.
Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.
King Vidor

19.
Every word you add dilutes the sentence.
Miller Williams

20.
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
Jincy Willett

21.
Can we not say 'dumped' and 'Bellas' in the same sentence, please?
CM Punk

22.
No" is a complete sentence.
Anne Lamott

23.
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
John Banville

24.
My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
William Kidd

25.
I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.
John McPhee

26.
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
Richard Flanagan

27.
A clear sentence is no accident.
William Zinsser

28.
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
Philip Roth

29.
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
Douglas Horton

30.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner

31.
Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence
Tony Horton

32.
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
Gretchen Rubin

33.
I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.
Stephen Amell

34.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Anatole France

35.
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.
Matthew Tobin Anderson

36.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

37.
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.
Margaret Culkin Banning

38.
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
Ellen G. White

39.
Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.
Roy Peter Clark

40.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard

41.
Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
Eddie Cantor

42.
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it
Hans Bellmer

43.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Winston Churchill

44.
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.
Rodman Philbrick

45.
My sentence is for open war.
John Milton

46.
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Gertrude Stein

47.
A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.
Mohammed Morsi

48.
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

49.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France

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I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.
David Byrne