Perfect Sentences Quotes

#1. Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

Salman Rushdie

#2. As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don't know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).

Fernando Pessoa

#3. If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won't make you, never quite managed to be a part of, but a world, nevertheless, that you at first fit into with the precision of a key to a lock or a neurotransmitter to its receptor.

Lauren Slater

#4. I wanted to tell her then that I loved her. I thought that might help, by grounding us in something we were sure about rather than everything we weren't.

Ransom Riggs

#5. In N.Y. you're always around people, but in L.A. you can go days without seeing anyone.

Gillian Zinser

#6. For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilization progressed.

H.G.Wells

#7. It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Tony Campolo

#8. Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

George William Russell

#9. Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

George Carlin

#10. CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Louis Kronenberger

#12. Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.

Julian May