Greatest Sentence of All Time?

[Wombat]

Personally, I fairly worship long sentences that are fully under control.

Short, declaritive sentences are all very fine in their place, what with their subject-verb-object all regimentally aligned, and yet there is something truly wondrous about a sentence that meanders in the manner of common conversation, full of circumlocutions and ellipses of thought.

Yep, long sentences rule.

 

[Olorin]

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

I love that line.

 

[shilsen]

"Thunder rolled....it rolled a six."

There's good and there's great, but that ... now that is sublime! Millennium hand and shrimp!

 

[Ferret]

"Therefore farewell. I see thou knows't me not."

Ok not the greatest but I like it If I poured over some terry pratchett, read some more steven king and in general more I'd be able to pick a better one.

 

[Welverin]

I'm partial to the first sentence of To Reign in Hell by Brust, which I can't quote because I'm not home at teh moment and even if I was it wouldn't matter because a friend has my copy of the book at the moment.

 

[jgbrowning]

Every angel is terrible.

-Rilke

joe b.

 

[Someone]

Speaking of sentences...

En un lugar de la mancha,de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.

 

[physicscarp]

Just a few of my favorites

Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.

Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub; It is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges.

And for me, nothing beats

The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.

 

[Mark Chance]

It was a dark and stormy night.

You left out the second part: "I had taken a creative writing course."

 

[arnon]

I'll agree that any quote of Adams is good, I love them all. This is one of my favorite:

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten millions years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."