Sentences Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  A.J. Ayer

  Ifs And, Significant, Given

  'Language, Truth, and Logic' (2nd ed., 1946) p. 35

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• To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

  Albert Einstein

  Fashion, Eye, Judging

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• You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.

  Emily Saliers

  Song, Spring, Heart

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• Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reading, Facts, Chance

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.25, MIT Press

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• Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

  Henry Rollins

  Comedian, Buffets, Helping

  "I’m Lovin’ It" by Henry Rollins, www.vanityfair.com. July 14, 2010.

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• The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence.

  Bill Maher

  Successful, President, Lasts

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I love any sentence that begins with Daddy...? because it's implied they're looking up to you - that you'll have the answer. The truth is, I don't have any answers.

  Paul Reiser

  Dad, Challenges, Trying

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• These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

  Potter Stewart

  Lightning, Way, Unusual

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• New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, New York, Latin

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• Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

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• I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

  Louis Armstrong

  Stars, Real, Night

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• I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.

  Harry Callahan

  Beautiful, Writing, Unique

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• I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

  Donald Glover

  Trying, Use, Firsts

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• Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

  Elif Safak

  Media, Land, Turkeys

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most.

  John Assaraf

  Thinking, One Sentence, Majors

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• Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Numbers, People

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• A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into the sentence. It allows you to stop and think harder about what you've already written. Often the story you're looking for is inside the sentence. The dependent clause helps you uncover it.

  Janet Fitch

  Moving, Thinking, Stories

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• Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.

  Andrew McAleer

  Passion, Color, Structure

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• There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Waiting

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• I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

  William H. Gass

  Unlikely

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.

  Renita J. Weems

  Giving, Silence, Depth

  Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

  Ze Frank

  Procrastination, Like You, Should

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• Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

  Dick Cavett

  Doe, Stopping, Journalism

  Interview with Jimmy Fallon, nymag.com. September 6, 2009.

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• A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

  Dick Cavett

  Memorable, Order, President

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.8, Macmillan

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