"Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then."

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Source : "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter V: "An Approach to Style", 1918.

William Strunk, Jr.

#Blood Quotes #Important Quotes #Trying Quotes

“When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.”

Source : Owen Barfield, Jeanne Clayton Hunter, Thomas Kranidas (1993). “A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield”, p.152, SUNY Press
“I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.”
“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.”
“You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if youâ€™re prepared to defend yourself.”
“In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.”
“The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.”
“I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.”

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