| Frederic William Farrar |  The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
Frederic William Farrar |
| Garth Ennis | 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.
Garth Ennis |
| Gary Gilmore | I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.
Gary Gilmore |
| generally | Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Jean Baudrillard
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| George Carlin | "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin |
| Gloria Naylor | One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Gloria Naylor |
| grandmother | A teenage girl is given a life sentence for killing a Fife grandmother during a row over £5 and a cigarette. |
| Guillermo Cabrera Infante | That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante |
| Horace Mann | Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann |
| Howard Dean | Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.
Howard Dean |
| Hugh Prather | To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather |
| Irvine Welsh | When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Irvine Welsh |
| Isadora Duncan | It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan |
| Ishmael Reed | That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.
Ishmael Reed |
| Jackson Browne | Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
Jackson Browne |
| Jacques Derrida | Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Jacques Derrida |
| Jai Rodriguez | My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
Jai Rodriguez |
| James Dickey | Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
James Dickey |
| James Lipton | It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
James Lipton |
| James Schuyler | However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
James Schuyler |
