Quotes About Omission

I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.

'Nicholas Nickleby' is 800 pages long. At one time, the theater production was 15 hours long. So it's an interesting process, about what you leave out and what you select.

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

Omettere sempre una parola, ricorrere a metafore inette e a perifrasi evidenti, é forse il modo piú enfatico di indicarla.

Churchill's 2,054 page book Second World War makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays there listening to the burbling mantra, the chant that never ceases, repeating its message that all is one. What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.

La clave de vuestra felicidad es aceptar vuestras babuchas, lo que sois, vuestro aspecto, a vuestra familia, las dotes que tenéis y las que no tenéis. Si seguís repitiendo que vuestras babuchas no son vuestras, moriréis buscando y amargados, creyendo siempre que os habían prometido más. «No sólo se convierten en nuestro destino nuestras acciones, sino también nuestras omisiones.»

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays

Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn't be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books.

Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.

Often the future is shaped not by what we remember but by what we forget.

This book is chock full of facts, figures, quotes, poll numbers, laws, and economic data but, to keep the subject matter accessible, it was necessary to streamline the work by omitting additional supporting evidence.

it's not what /Ehrman puts into the book that is so troubling but what he leaves out. And what he leaves out is any discussion of the tremendous resources at our disposal for reconstructing the text of the New Testament.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

It partook,' said Kate, 'of the nature of a full-scale cursing against one Crawford of Lymond, but whether for sins of omission or commission is not entirely clear.