Using Quotes

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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.… — Ernest Hemingway
You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary. — Joan Rivers
What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information,… — Carol Bellamy
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and… — Winston Churchill
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do… — Woody Harrelson
UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in… — Ewan McGregor
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected… — Tennessee Williams
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well,… — Peter Lynch
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me… — Anne McCaffrey
Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices. — Ursula K. Le Guin
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call… — Flannery O'Connor
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.… — Wynn Bullock
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there… — Sigurd F. Olson
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon… — Mark Twain
I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure. — Joseph Scheidler
The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know… — Sam Smith

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