Trenchant Quotes

#1. Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

Roy Blount Jr.

#2. Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Alec-Tweedie

#3. I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Don DeLillo

#4. Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

Ben Shahn

#5. The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. In college I wrote trenchant, deep, profound epics. Then I grew up.

T.E. Huff

#7. We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

#8. the most trenchant commentary was

Edmund Morris

#9. trenchant questions she'd asked. 'Pretty?

Stav Sherez

#10. Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

Paul J. Meyer

#12. Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

Maimonides

#13. But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it. Heuristics

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. ..who would win in a fight.Dumbeldore from harry potter or Magnus Bane.

"Dumbledore would totally win"said the first one."he has the badass killing curse."

The second lycanthorpe made a trenchant point."Dumbeldore isn't real"
"I don't think magnus Bane is real either.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

Ellen Glasgow

#16. When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

Marieta Maglas

#17. In fact-Dr. Sheppard!

Agatha Christie

#18. I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

Martin Luther

#19. We grasp at symbols, talismans, triggers of association to what's forever gone.

Chris Kraus

#20. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

Nhat Hanh

#21. Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

Salvador Minuchin