William Strunk, Jr. Quotes
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.William Strunk, Jr.
Quotes to Explore
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
Nathaniel Smith -
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens -
I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
Usain Bolt -
A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
Jack Hanna -
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom -
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
Oscar Isaac -
The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
Naomi Klein -
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
Carine Roitfeld -
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant -
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
Aaron Sorkin -
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
Zac Posen -
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei -
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott -
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
Gary Johnson -
As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
K. D. Lang
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar Wilde -
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.
Blaise Pascal -
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.
Aristotle -
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle -
Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.
Alfred Capus -
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr.