Superfluous Words Quotes

#1. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

Horace

#2. Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Oliver Herford

#4. Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

Maya Angelou

#5. In love, be willing to fight for them, but never compete.

Carlos Salinas

#6. This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of rot and ruin, fire and ash.

Jonathan Maberry

#7. We are spiritual beings walking around in these crazy skin suits. Our insides are much more important than our outsides.

Rory Freedman

#8. Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

Ingrid Bergman

#10. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

#11. Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Anais Nin

#12. She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.

Sherwood Anderson

#13. Even with the Brotherhood as support, going to the colony was a suicide mission - and she was willing to bet there were a lot of people having sex under the mansion's roof right now.
Sometimes you had to have a taste of life right before you knocked on the Grim Reaper's front
door.

J.R. Ward

#14. Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.

Saint John Chrysostom

#15. We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Dick Van Dyke

#16. Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.

Billy Graham

#17. My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.

Gretchen Rubin

#18. She's dying?!" "What?!" "He didn't say that!" "Let me evaluate the severity of her injuries!" "Dude, get your stupid medical bag." "It's not so stupid now that we need it, is it?!" "Shut the bloody hell up and get the bag!

A&E Kirk

#19. When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

Cassandra Clare