Burghoff Cookies Quotes & Sayings

So which guideline should a writer follow, "Avoid elegant variation" or "Don't use a word twice on one page"? Traditional style guides don't resolve the contradiction, but psycholinguistics can help. Wording should not be varied capriciously, because in general people assume that if someone uses two different words they're referring to two different things. And as we shall soon see, wording should never be varied when a writer is comparing or contrasting two things. But wording should be varied when an entity is referred to multiple times in quick succession and repeating the name would sound monotonous or would misleadingly suggest that a new actor had entered the scene. — Steven Pinker

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole. — T. S. Eliot

Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her. — Hines Ward

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen. — Ben Affleck

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money. — Groucho Marx

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. — Voltaire

They seem to be in a conspiracy to persecute you," she said. "What does it mean?"
"Only the protest of the world, Miss Verinder - on a very small scale - against anything that is new. — Wilkie Collins

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments. — Christine Feehan