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Lean Quotes by William Zinsser
- Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the…
- Good writing is lean and confident.
- Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be…
More Lean Quotes
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck
- A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be… — William Shakespeare
- We women adore failures. They lean on us. — Oscar Wilde
- Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions,… — Ravi Zacharias
- Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much… — A B Simpson
- When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward. — J. J. Abrams
- If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to… — A A Milne
- Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper