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Letter "P" » paragraphing
«I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cram, crammed, paragraphing, paragraphs
«The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.»
Author: Dirk Bogarde
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
camera, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, polemic, polemics
«Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.»
Author: Franklin Pierce Adams
(Columnist, Journalist, Translator)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, unimaginative
«Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.»
Author: John Kotter
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
formed, go a long way, paragraphing, paragraphs, sentences, slickness
«Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
| Keywords:
finer, footnote, footnotes, hold fast, paragraphing, paragraphs, suckered, surfaces, testicular, The Library, wider
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
Author: William Strunk, Jr.
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concise, contain, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, lines, machine, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, sentence, sentences, unnecessary, vigorous
«The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
epigram, paragraphing, paragraphs, platitude, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
«How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
dared, deflated, deflates, deflating, disputant, disputants, dispute, paragraph, paragraphing
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy
«Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, reflect
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