Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices… — George Will Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't… — Buwei Yang Chao Copy Share Image
I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
What we want, we have for our pains The promise that if we but wait Till the want has burned out of… — Fitz Hugh Ludlow Copy Share Image
A beautiful eyelash is an important adjunct to the eye. The lashes may be lengthened by trimming them occasionally in childhood. Care… — Eliza Bisbee Duffey Copy Share Image
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings.… — Charley Harper Copy Share Image
Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings! — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me… — Veronica Lake Copy Share Image
