| Kenneth Clark |  To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
Kenneth Clark |
| Keren Ann | 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.
Keren Ann |
| Larry McMurtry | 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.
Larry McMurtry |
| Len Wein | In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
Len Wein |
| Letitia Landon | An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Landon |
| Lewis Carroll | Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll |
| Liam Neeson | 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.
Liam Neeson |
| Lionel Trilling | Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel Trilling |
| Louis Farrakhan | However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.
Louis Farrakhan |
| Marek Belka | And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.
Marek Belka |
| Marianne Moore | 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 |
| Marilyn Hacker | When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker |
| Meg Tilly | 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.
Meg Tilly |
| Michael Ondaatje | The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
Michael Ondaatje |
| middle | I read for about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and to change my dress. |
| Miguel de Cervantes | A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes |
| native | In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence. |
| Neale Donald Walsch | I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch |
| Niels Bohr | Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr |
| outrage | Outrage grows in India over a six-month jail sentence to a former police officer who is convicted for molesting a 14-year-old girl. |
