Periodic Sentence Quotes

#1. I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

Hume Cronyn

#3. To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?

Ti West

#4. Old-style management is irrelevant.

Peter Diamandis

#5. Restored in you, to be renewed in you, to receive from you

John Eldredge

#6. Terenty comes to them, makes the sign of the cross over them, and puts bread under their heads. And no one sees his love. It is seen only by the moon which floats in the sky and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."
from "A Day in the Country

Anton Chekhov

#7. Theirs was a story of two people bound strongly to one another yet forbidden to be together. He was royalty, she was a commoner.

Kristen Britain

#8. There was a fleeting cold front, the slight judgment that said immigrants were a necessary fact of life, one that must be tolerated but never truly accepted. The only way to ever become a permanent part of America's greatness would be to defend it. Cassidy

Adriana Trigiani

#9. I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

Edward Burns

#10. Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

John Heider

#11. We need something fun to remember when we look back at our youth.

Angie Stanton

#12. Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Berkeley Breathed