William Strunk, Jr. Quotes

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

William Strunk, Jr.

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Party
  • System

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Unique
  • Snowflake

• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Different
  • Power
  • Process

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Musician

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Great
  • Around
  • Table

• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Women
  • Character
  • Career

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

  

  Michael LeBoeuf
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Forget

• Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Why

• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Question
  • Beginning
  • Spiritual

• This is my favorite combo of musicians. It's one of the finest jazz groups out there. I'm just proud to be in it.

  

  Chris Botti Incognito
  • Proud
  • Jazz
  • Musicians

• The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Attention
  • Deals
  • Details