Ernest Gowers Quotes
That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
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I must before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things...
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I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.
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There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
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It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
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It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.
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I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of speech.
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I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
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I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
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Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
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A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog? Because either dog you choose, I guarantee you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
