Quotes About Flourishes

Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Los Angeles signed a pact with the devil and lost its soul a long time ago, you know? It flourishes, but it's doomed.

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.

Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

Reason is the root, through which the resonant word flourishes.

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

Do you prepare these speeches when you're washing the dishes, or do such rhetorical flourishes come to you unrehearsed?' She considered his question in the spirit in which it had been asked and answered, 'I'd say they come to me quite naturally, though I imagine I'm aided by the fact that I see myself as the Language Police, ever on the prowl for infelicities or stupidities.' 'Lots of work?' he asked. 'Endless.' She

Artistic flourishes like this may have seemed like a waste of energy, but they were central to the survival of the city and the pride of its inhabitants.

My own literary work, on the contrary, was always done as quietly and methodically as a piece of tapestry. I knew exactly what I had got to say, put the words firmly in their places like so many stitches, hemmed the edges of the chapters round with what seemed to me graceful flourishes, touched them finally with my cunningest points of colour, and read the work to papa and mamma at breakfast next morning, as a girl shows her sampler. Praeterita, Volume 2

creating big, bold letters; he draws visible pleasure from the flourishes with which he embellishes especially the letters J and S. They want a big public Disputation,