William Strunk, Jr. Quotes

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

William Strunk, Jr.

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• I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Myself
  • Something
  • Wrong

• Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Future
  • Energy

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Power
  • Death
  • Words

• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Today
  • College
  • Brother

• I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Done
  • Never
  • Box

• When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Living

• The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Soul

• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Problem
  • How

• A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Want
  • Personality
  • Without

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

• Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Started
  • Negotiating

• Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Question

• The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Question
  • Understanding
  • Humble

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• One of my key issues is economic empowerment.

  

  Elise Stefanik

• Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Listening
  • Compassion
  • Affliction

• God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Up
  • God
  • Thinking

• I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • People
  • Political
  • Moral

• Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Light
  • Sun
  • Images

• Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.