#sentence

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #death #even #evolved #grandmother

I want to invent a word that means “to stand tall, even when you feel small and frail.” That word, as I envision it, will be “Buqz” (pronounced Bucks). And then, with my newly created word, I can formulate a sentence that ties the record for the shortest sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. That sentence is, “Flyph Wax, a starving midget jock, buqz. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#invent #sentence #word #funny

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#brazen #i #immediate #induce #know

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#excitement #fabric #governed #gravity #i

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. ↗

— Richard Powers

#i #journal #keep #past #quotes

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#female #genitals #had #hard #inadvertently

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#death #gay #me #mother #sentence

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey. ↗

— John Irving

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith