Quotes About Clarity

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

My agent and I are very clear on what kind of roles I'm interested in, and I don't want to perpetuate any stereotypes.

People know that I'm very outspoken. I've learned that when I talk, it usually comes off very aggressive. It's not that I'm aggressive - I'm very stern.

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

For the record, I am not Stevie Wonder's wife, and no, I am not his child.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

Everyone should be decisive about what's best for them and stick to it.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.