Quotes About Clarity

Non dire sciocchezze e, per giunta, in latino.

I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.

The exhumation of your soul will be successful only if you dig one deep hole rather than a lot of shallow ones.

She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.

If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment.

She'd be absolutely certain before she told

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. Don't know what you want so can't advise you how to get it.

Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect for your reader

If there is one lesson to be learned from this book, it is that there is never a dull moment in the world of punctuation.

Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point.

As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in opening up a pair of commas and then neglecting to deliver the closing one. The reader hears the first shoe drop and then strains in agony to hear the second. In dramatic terms, it's like putting a gun on the mantelpiece in Act I and then having the heroine drown herself quietly offstage in the bath during the interval. It's just not cricket.

So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician's assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete.

While we look in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight. We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else - yet we see it all the time .

Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, "The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.

Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo

Well? Are you going to crouch there and gawk at me or explain yourself? Instead of answering, the girl frowned and asked, Why can't i read you? A short disbelieving laugh slipped from Sherry, but when the girl simply stared at her with bewilderment, she said reasonably, Maybe because I'm not a book.

A man needed a clear mind to fight his foe, not one distracted with thoughts of whether the fishpond might please his wife. Or who found himself mooning about how she was a hard worker, and so kind-hearted. Or thinking on how her laugh was high and full of joy and made him want to smile. Or daydreaming on how sweet her kisses were, and how good it felt to bury his cock in her warm body. Or wondering whether she might care for him as he'd come to realize he cared for her.

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian??ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity, although quite what is clear I cannot express.

We waste our lives in half truths and nonsense. We waste them.

Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That's - that's just an awful feeling.

We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

truth is reality