One Great Sentence
Sometimes I'll read a sentence that is so brilliant or masterfully-written or creative that I want to record it somewhere. This is that place. Here are some of the most enjoyable sentences I've ever come across.
I want to see Kawhi Leonard’s Blood Meridian of a dunk on Mike Miller depicted in the most fevered Cormac McCarthy prose you could possibly imagine. “And then rising from the hard planks like a pheasant startled by shot the cornrowed elongated youth swung down his arm and it was as if fire fell with his swing and truth fell with it and something fell too that was neither fire nor truth but that could perhaps have been called beauty and that was more terrible than fire or truth by far.
- Brian Leonard, Grantland
Before they met, his heart was a frozen block of ice, scarred by the skate blades of broken relationships, then she came along and like a beautiful Zamboni flooded his heart with warmth, scraped away the ugly slushy bits, and dumped them in the empty parking lot of his soul.
- Howie McLennon
"'Mrs. Brown, formerly "Aunt Maggie,'" says I to her, 'I'm going to extend my feet alternately, one after the other, in such a manner and direction that this tenement will recede from me in the quickest possible time."
- O.Henry, The Enchanted Profile
Drunk Florida Man Tried to Use Taco as ID After Accidentally Setting His Car on Fire.
- Reggie Noble
"A Nova Scotia man says he was young and immature and generally unaware of the aggressive nature of West Coast seagulls when he left a suitcase of pepperoni near an open hotel window."
- CTV Vancouver
- Brian Leonard, Grantland
Before they met, his heart was a frozen block of ice, scarred by the skate blades of broken relationships, then she came along and like a beautiful Zamboni flooded his heart with warmth, scraped away the ugly slushy bits, and dumped them in the empty parking lot of his soul.
- Howie McLennon
"'Mrs. Brown, formerly "Aunt Maggie,'" says I to her, 'I'm going to extend my feet alternately, one after the other, in such a manner and direction that this tenement will recede from me in the quickest possible time."
- O.Henry, The Enchanted Profile
Drunk Florida Man Tried to Use Taco as ID After Accidentally Setting His Car on Fire.
- Reggie Noble
"A Nova Scotia man says he was young and immature and generally unaware of the aggressive nature of West Coast seagulls when he left a suitcase of pepperoni near an open hotel window."
- CTV Vancouver