Declarative Sentence Quotes

#1. The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

E. E. Cummings

#2. I don't think - I begin, but then I stop there. Strangely enough, this sounds like a full, declarative sentence, as if I'm standing in a bar shouting out one of my most obvious character flaws. I don't think!

Matthew Norman

#3. By comparison, George W. Bush was light and breezy and apparently forgot during one debate that Social Security was a federal program. In fact, his depth, and his unfamiliarity with the complexities of the issues, to say nothing of the simple declarative sentence, worked remarkably to his advantage.

Charles P. Pierce

#4. How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?

Sue Grafton

#5. Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.

William Zinsser

#6. On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.

Terry Brooks

#8. Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

John Huston

#9. Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

Eknath Easwaran

#11. To threaten someone with a gun is the same as attacking them, If you had taken his gun, the real war would have started, and in all likelihood we would never have got out of that place alive,

Jose Saramago

#12. A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#13. No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

G. Ledyard Stebbins

#14. I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.

Eric Kripke

#15. The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!

Dalai Lama XIV

#16. We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Myles Munroe

#17. By acknowledging spirit with gratitude, you bring it joy and give it more strength to do its work.

Russell Eric Dobda

#18. One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst.

Robert H. Grubbs

#19. Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

Malala Yousafzai