Top 21 Strunk White Quotes

#1. Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt ... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

Fujio Mitarai

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#2. The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#3. You do that a lot." [ ... ] "Look sad. I hate it. Your mouth turns down. Your cheeks lose all color. You lose everything about you that makes you ... you.

Katie McGarry

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#4. Strunk and White don't speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I'm willing to; I think timid writers like them for the same reason timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.

Stephen King

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#5. All types of riches should be amassed by all means.

Chanakya

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#6. I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.

Peter Saul

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#7. I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star has fully prepared her to take control of our nuclear arsenal.

Stephen Colbert

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#8. Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

William Strunk Jr.

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#9. She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

John Cheever

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#10. In his New Yorker column of July 27, 1957, E. B. White praised the "little book" as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English.

William Strunk Jr.

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#11. Vigorous writing is concise.

Strunk Jr., William

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#12. If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

Buffy Andrews

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#13. And that's not all," she went on. "He's typing his memoirs. A man who can't scribble down a grocery list without consulting Strunk and White suddenly thinks he's an ex-president." They

Harlan Coben

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#14. To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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#15. We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return

Antoine De Pluvinel

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#16. Sometimes you just have to do whats best for yourself.

Alicia Keys

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#17. How odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

Jim Fergus

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#18. Without dreams 'life'remains 'life'..always: neither better nor worse.

Munia Khan

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#19. There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality. Albanian blood runs through my veins and I am proud to call myself Albanian.

Masiela Lusha

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#20. Pullum has special vitriol for Elements of Style, which he calls "E. B. White's disgusting and hypocritical revision of William Strunk's little hodgepodge of bad grammar advice and stylistic banalities" or

Robert Lane Greene

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#21. As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

Frederick Lenz

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