Available Quote by William Safire Download Open image “Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?” — William Safire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Available Inspirational Nouns Use Writing
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right. — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
“Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant,… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R. — Dan Farmer Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all. — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image