|
"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium." »Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
|
|
"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium." »Henry W. Fowler
|
|
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." »Bertrand Russell
|
|
"Today a reader--tomorrow a leader." »W. Fusselman
|
|
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well." »Amos Bronson Alcott
|
|
"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." »Thomas Carlyle
|
|
"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love." »Mary Manin Morrissey
|
|
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." »Dean Gooderham Acheson
|
|
"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath." »Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
|
|
"If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
|
|
"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." »John Keats
|
|
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." »Buddha
|
|
"Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality." »Jon Kabit-Zinn
|
|
"A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader’s mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought." »Albert Guerard
|
|
"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought." »Pierre Bayle
|
|
"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery
|
|
"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
|
|
"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
|
|
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." »Mark Twain
|
|
"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
|
|
"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." »Henri Frdric Amiel
|
|
"O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out." »W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
|
|
"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much." »Peter Ustinov
|
|
"Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire." »Orison Swett Marden
|
|
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did." »James Arthur Baldwin
|
|
"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
|
|
"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter
|
|
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
"The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself." »Frank Tyger
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
