#ten

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#between #box #common #could #deal

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#muffled #silk #silver #superb #tenor

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#fulfilled #gone #had #i #look

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#dried #four #haven #i #sort

We control the content of our dreams. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#control #dreams #our #our dreams

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#into #our #poems #put #reading

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. ↗

— Mel Gussow

#connoisseur #laughter #often #though

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. ↗

— David Guterson

#i #me #melancholy #need #produce

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute. ↗

— David Guterson

#cases #commute #growing #growing up #heard