Advertisements
Extraneous Quotes
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements






Advertisements
Text Quotes
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do (Extraneous Quotes)
My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business (Extraneous Quotes)
You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say enough. (Extraneous Quotes)
What’s really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer (Extraneous Quotes)
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within. (Extraneous Quotes)
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . . (Extraneous Quotes)
I’m trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence. (Extraneous Quotes)
When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions, with the remainder generated by natural processes like plant decay. (Extraneous Quotes)
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces (Extraneous Quotes)
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections (Extraneous Quotes)
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light (Extraneous Quotes)
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give (Extraneous Quotes)
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws (Extraneous Quotes)
He knew he couldn’t tell stories, that he always included extraneous details and tangents that interested only him (Extraneous Quotes)
There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it (Extraneous Quotes)
Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words (Extraneous Quotes)
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas (Extraneous Quotes)
A player’s effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can’t be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now (Extraneous Quotes)
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That’s why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that’s probably true (Extraneous Quotes)
So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it’s not my play (Extraneous Quotes)
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them (Extraneous Quotes)
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity (Extraneous Quotes)
The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call (Extraneous Quotes)
What the dead don’t know piles up, though we don’t notice it at first. They don’t know how we’re getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don’t know that we don’t want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don’t want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind (Extraneous Quotes)
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations (Extraneous Quotes)
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress (Extraneous Quotes)
Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon (Extraneous Quotes)
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness (Extraneous Quotes)
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late (Extraneous Quotes)
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features (Extraneous Quotes)