Academic Style Quotes

#1. I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

Clifford Geertz

#2. It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'

Robert G. Allen

#3. Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks

#4. We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

Joel Salatin

#5. If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.

Joseph M. Williams

#6. If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

Richard E. Byrd

#7. It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they go. The art of movement, therefore, is one of the most complex and vital that any commander must master if he is going to win.

Saul David

#8. My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.

Joel McIver

#9. Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

Vikram Seth

#10. I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

George Lucas

#11. These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning.

John Le Carre

#12. I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.

Jennifer Hudson

#13. Because if I lost her, I would be lost, too.

Kami Garcia

#14. Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

John C. Maxwell