Composition Quote by William Shenstone Download Open image “Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.” — William Shenstone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composition House Littles Long Rooms Sentences Short Writing
The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences. — Turner Catledge Copy Share Image
“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs. Long sentences… — Harry Beckwith Copy Share Image
I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“There is an aversion to long chunks of sentences...The dire problem is that long chunks of sentences are still the best way humans have… — Dick Meyer Copy Share Image
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it? — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
