Single Sentences Quotes

#1. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

Joseph Joubert

#2. If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Scott Turow

#3. I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have people who grow old with you, and you stay with them through their life. We've got a few sentences, maybe, to say what life's about. Hopefully, we'll get a chapter later.

Brian Fallon

#4. It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

Richard K. Morgan

#5. An idol has such a controlling position in your heart that you can spend most of your passion and energy, your emotional and financial resources, on it without a second thought. . . .

Tullian Tchividjian

#6. I'm checking my pockets for spare words and sentences but I'm finding none, not an adverb, not a preposition or even a dangling participle because there doesn't exist a single response to such an outlandish request.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Ellen Klages

#8. But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Polly Toynbee

#9. Despite his evasiveness and his determination to hew to a single message, Jobs was a vivid presence. The intensity of his self-confidence made me hang on his every word. He spoke in carefully constructed sentences, even when trying to answer an unexpected question.

Brent Schlender

#10. The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don't worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.

David Gerrold

#11. Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Pamela Morris

#12. Not until she'd left the room did Kate realize that Bunny hadn't ended a single one of her sentences with a question mark.

Anne Tyler

#13. I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.

William H Gass

#14. I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

Brian Kiley

#15. You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

#16. The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life.

Steven Redhead

#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. I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

Keith Gessen

#19. Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Melissa Bean

#20. 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

#21. I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

Mahesh Bhupathi

#22. this wasn't the end. She had to remember that. Each day she lived there was a chance for salvation. She couldn't give up. She could never give up.

Kristin Hannah

#23. Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#24. It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

Alexander Smith

#25. As I build sentences, I roll them sometimes on my mouth to taste them as I write them. I have this emptying of the mind and the focusing on that single thing, that infinitesimal moment and there is perfection, you know, as if I exist fully in that nanosecond of emotion.

Trinity Jones

#26. An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

Robert Breault