Short Sentence Quotes

#1. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

James Joyce

#2. In one short sentence, it is captaincy that counts

Bernard Montgomery

#3. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel De Cervantes

#4. Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.

David Rock

#5. When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. On the first day of Human Sexuality, Ruth Ramsey wore a short lime green skirt, a clingy black top, and strappy high-heeled sandals, the kind of attention-getting outfit she normally wouldn't have worn on a date
not that she was going on a lot of dates these days
let alone to work.

Tom Perrotta

#7. The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope walk - every sentence is a step along the rope, and you can so easily misplace your step and break your neck.

Kevin Barry

#8. If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Roland Barthes

#10. There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

William Zinsser

#11. The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#12. He was very short in prayer when others were present, but every sentence was like a strong bolt shot up to heaven. I have heard him say that he wearied when others were long in prayer; but, being alone, he spent much time in wrestling and prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish ... " She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.

Morgan Matson

#14. A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Jasper Fforde

#16. The law holds man in bondage; love makes him free.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#17. Sometimes you have to choose whether what you're wishin' for is really what you want.

Corinne Michaels

#18. Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips
not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.

Patricia Raybon

#19. Phase Two. The Scorch Trials.

James Dashner

#20. How many millions of times the sentence 'Life is short' has been repeated in the human history? But nevertheless we all live as if we have millions of years! Oh, how silly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

Haruki Murakami

#22. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

Bertrand Russell

#23. My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.

Brandon Stanton

#24. The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

Tariq Ramadan

#25. ( ... )while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

Robert McKee

#26. Look what we, the humans, the humanity!???
What we are doing in "The Purge", it's shown.

Deyth Banger

#27. Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

Tea Obreht

#28. ... when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence ... in love, never settle ... value yourself first and this will help you to value others ... life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest ... everyone in the world is different, and that's ok ...

Spider Robinson

#29. At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

Aaron Patzer

#30. In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

Bob Dylan