Perfect Sentence Quotes

#1. I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

John Banville

#2. I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

Greg Iles

#3. 'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

Greg Iles

#4. You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

Gore Vidal

#5. I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Joanna Trollope

#6. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

#7. I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

James Joyce

#8. Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

Anne Shirley

#9. Hope.
It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.

Tahereh Mafi

#10. I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

Jack Ma

#11. There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

Richard Hell

#12. Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.

Stuart Scott

#13. Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence,
you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is.
Where they come from never goes dry.
It is an always flowing spring.

Rumi

#14. If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

Joe Miller

#15. When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Irvine Welsh

#16. The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace-this sentence

B.H. Liddell Hart

#17. Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.

Roald Dahl

#18. ... praise does not make anything better or worse.

Marcus Aurelius

#19. We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Rosie O'Donnell

#20. Be daring, take on anything. Don't labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

#21. The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

Fran Lebowitz

#22. He was pure sex with a side of fun.

C.D. Reiss

#23. And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

Melinda M. Snodgrass

#24. The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

Malik Bendjelloul

#25. Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Jim Elliot

#26. It's also obsessiveness. I'll spend a lot of time working on a single sentence, debating over a dash or a colon, etc. I want things to be perfect. I know nothing will ever be as perfect as I want it, and this is very sad, but sometimes I can get close.

Mary J. Miller

#27. Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.

L.M. Montgomery

#28. But he didn't seem to need her to finish her sentence as he said, I know. When you kiss me, it's like that for me, too.

Bella Andre

#29. Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

Isla Fisher

#30. Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#31. Where did you find the whipped cream?" he asked. "You had milk, I had science," said Jack. "It's amazing how much of culinary achievement can be summarized by that sentence. Cheese making, for example. The perfect intersection of milk, science, and foolish disregard for the laws of nature.

Seanan McGuire