Stringently Quotes

#1. I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.

Wolfgang Smith

#3. The 'deep' civic function of the humanities ... is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.

Mark Slouka

#4. We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

William J. Brennan

#5. You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

Bronwyn Bishop

#6. If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

Bob Dylan

#7. Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

Gary Locke

#8. I think we've been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

Greg McKeown

#9. People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home.

Annie Dillard

#10. 'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.

Adam Scott

#11. Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Keenen Ivory Wayans