It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James Copy Share Image
In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all… — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. — Lope de Vega Copy Share Image
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church,… — Origen Copy Share Image
