Annoying Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney Download Open image “What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.” — Natalie Clifford Barney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Annoying Passages Writing
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I can’t lie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
When you're standing around for an hour doing stand up it's no big deal but when you're standing around watching a show for an… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible. — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image
