#sentences

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#frankly #other #people #sentences #start

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.' ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#came #depp #english #first #first time

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#i #imprison #mould #our #refuse

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #book #create #different #effects

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences. ↗

— Jeremy Larner

#idea #longer #people #sentences #some

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#country #country boy #couple #define #elvis

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#does #interesting #literature #made #makes

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#book #others #say #sentences #ten

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ambition #among #aphorism #book #does

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it. ↗

— Franka Potente

#any #emotional #especially #feel #having