Quotes for All
Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met…. In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone. Eric Weiner
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer’s ideas or personality. Emma Goldman
George Bush’s political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. Emilio Botin
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I’ve written, say one sentence sonnets, I’ve been able to do those fairly quickly whereas some of the clearest, simplest lyrics that I’ve written have taken me the longest to get to the clarity of feeling that you’re looking for. Edward Hirsch
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t. Eben Alexander
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters … in their purest form … are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the … Read more
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. Freeman Dyson
On the air, it’s as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don’t even feel it inside. It’s the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I’ve known broadcasters who can’t get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk … Read more
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. Demi Lovato
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be ‘Shut up and calculate!’ David Mermin