Add Quote by Miller Williams Download Open image “Every word you add dilutes the sentence.” — Miller Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Add Language Sentences
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words. — Shepard Smith Copy Share Image
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Wherever it left us, we were barely learning to live with it when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams to tell us that… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“He lives all alone now, in the home they bought, and finally seems to be managing, more or less. Not the way he was,… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I put myself in a spiritual and physical place where I've learned from experience the synapses are likely to fire and the juices are… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
