The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I know I'm not the best for you,But promise that you'll stay.Cause if I watch you go, You'll see me wasting away — Alyssa Copy Share Image
From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed. — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
This is my last breath, you'll find a note on my bed. As the blood hits the floor, I'll be knocking on… — Leslie Copy Share Image
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat.… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I… — Charles Haddon Copy Share Image
Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me,… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at… — John Walford Copy Share Image
She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time. — Nanette Lepore Copy Share Image
I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I had a bowl cut for years, and glasses. When Harry Potter became famous, I looked just like him. — Joe Jonas Copy Share Image
Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people. — Mary Lasker Copy Share Image
I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth… — Phil Bredesen Copy Share Image
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The wider the smile the deeper the cut=) I'm all scars now nothing but scars,look at me that's all you see, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I love my artwork, I love it on my wrist. I love having a personality, with a terrifying twist. -drucilla baron (me) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only… — Charles James Copy Share Image
Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and… — Albert Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
