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

• It is the function of the intellect to discriminate between the true and the false-a distinction which is applicable to all objects of intellectual perception.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Perception

• Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.

  

  Lawrence Summers
  • Growth

• When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that "having it all" is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a simple matter of "choice," we ignore the systematic problems that make combining work and motherhood so difficult.

  

  Emily Matchar
  • Goal
  • Stories
  • Problems

• I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Energy
  • Weird
  • Empathy

• I'm quite a domestic person by nature, and the nomad thing had got a bit stale on me, really.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Nature

• When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • People
  • Political

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

  

  William Strunk, Jr.