#word

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.

#drawing #lines #machine #paragraph #parts

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#know #loud #pronounce #say #word

Omit needless words. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#omit #words

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#here #made #mean #point #same

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#apply #going #good #good reason #i

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#ask #authentic #days #difficult #evolved

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#course #does #dragged #every #every time

Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#deal #district #districts #ever #fictitious

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word. ↗

— Willie Sutton

#gun #just #kind #kind word #more

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#fame #get #hope #how #initial