Sentences After Quotes

#1. Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Gil Garcetti

#2. What rattled and thumped was a knotted towel full of melting ice cubes. Somebody who loved me very much had put them on the back of my head. Somebody who loved me less had bashed in the back of my skull. It could have been the same person. People have moods.

Raymond Chandler

#3. I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Billy Campbell

#4. He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.

Christopher Bram

#5. It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

George Horace Lorimer

#6. Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

#7. I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

Chang-rae Lee

#8. If four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

Naftali Bennett

#9. I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."

John Sayles

#10. Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

Francine Rivers

#11. Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.

Martin Amis

#12. The therapist, he thought, and it bothered him a lot more than it should have. After all, he had nothing permanent with Sophie. He just needed to touch her on a semiregular basis or he couldn't finish his sentences.

Jennifer Crusie

#13. It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.'

Pete Wentz

#14. To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few beings.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#15. After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper.

Michael Cox

#16. others swapped lewd jokes and fictitious tales of several kinds of booty scored.

Hugh Howey

#17. Marijuana gives rise to insanity
not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.

Eric Schlosser

#18. My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

Steve Wynn

#19. Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Lin Yutang

#20. When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

John Banville

#21. In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences.

Tasha Alexander

#22. After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

John Paul Stevens

#23. And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings - the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates.

Simon Winchester

#24. The imagination of a master
will never be thought
only be written.
Petra Hermans
October 16, 2016

Petra Hermans

#25. If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

Walter Kirn

#26. . Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul.

Bernadette Allen

#27. Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun ...

Mao Tse-tung

#28. When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble,

Felix Baumgartner

#29. Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Richard Ford

#30. Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One

Lois Lowry