Cut Away Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no… — Shane Koyczan
Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and… — Waris Dirie
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure. — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of… — Willa Cather
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form.… — Dick Wolf
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear… — Larry Craig
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly… — Nicole Krauss
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of… — Plotinus
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense… — Tahir Shah
Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a… — Haruki Murakami
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are… — Charles de Lint
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. — Nikolai Gogol
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing. — Leslie Cockburn
A certain frustrating situation seems fraught with red tape. When you look at the mess, you become so overwhelmed by it that you want to… — 06 July

Who Wrote These Cut Away Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Cut Away Quotes as follows: