Extraneous Quotes

52 Extraneous quotes by 47 unique authors

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product,… — Robert Bringhurst
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go… — Ross Bleckner
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do. — Howard Hodgkin
I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to… — Stan Getz
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at… — Ralph Cudworth
A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the… — John Brodie
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to… — Primo Levi
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an… — Charlotte Bronte
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,… — Mark Twain
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. — David Mazzucchelli
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… — Beryl Markham
Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should… — Garth Stein
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We really should get some X-rays,” the EMT said. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT. — Darynda Jones
Ambulances were cool. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT as I picked up a silver gadget that… — Darynda Jones
..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy. — Richelle Mead
Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words. — Peter Serafinowicz
Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of… — Bruce Lipton
My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. — Haley Joel Osment
In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and… — Antonio Gramsci
Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous Amity Anarchy Apathy Appease Asperity… — MrAwesome
Is the source of stress in the past, present, or future? You cant change the past, but you can respond to the present and prepare… — DrAnil Kr Sinha

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