Zitat des Tages über Satz / Sentence:
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
Work at a place like Google for awhile: if you do an interview and you say all the right things, no one really cares. But the day you say the wrong sentence, it's attributed to 'Senior Google Executive,' and the stock moves, and everybody hates you.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'
Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.
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!
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Oftentimes, a history book in school will talk about the Underground Railroad as if it's one sentence. But thousands of people decided to run, and they single-handedly changed the trajectory of our nation. By running to the North, they put a face to slavery, which recruited a lot of abolitionists.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.