Clever Style Sayings

#1. Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. Love doesn't spurt up like an instant bonfire, consuming all reason, it flickers and falters, and sometimes almost goes out. The fact that it doesn't go out, despite all the rain that fall on it
that's love.

V.C. Andrews

#3. What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

Joseph Pulitzer

#4. The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style ... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. Your style is who you are when you're not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

John Currin

#7. The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

Rand Paul

#8. You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

Cornel West

#9. If the young cannot harbor great dreams in their souls, who can?

Eiji Yoshikawa

#10. Mike Ruby, a writer in the magazine's Business section, used to call Newsweek writing f - k-style journalism: Flash (the lead), Understanding (the billboard - why is this story important), Clarification (tell the details of the story), and Kicker (bringing it all together with a clever ending).

Lynn Povich