Brevity Quote by William Strunk, Jr Download Open image “A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.” — William Strunk, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Computers Concise Drawing Lines Machines Paragraph Should Should have Unnecessary Vigorous Writing Written language
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.” — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding,… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
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
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; the reader wishes to be told what is... If your… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
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