Importance Of Practicality Quotes & Sayings

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name. — Ben Aaronovitch

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13. — Irv Kupcinet

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over. — Rebecca Solnit

[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers
namely, that the job of the author is to show, not tell. Needless to say, many great novelists combine "dramatic" showing with long sections of the flat-out authorial narration that is, I guess, what is meant by telling. And the warning against telling leads to a confusion that causes novice writers to think that everything should be acted out
don't tell us a character is happy, show us how she screams "yay" and jumps up and down for joy
when in fact the responsibility of showing should be assumed by the energetic and specific use of language. — Francine Prose

Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around. — Jennifer Niven

Oh courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. — Henrik Ibsen

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world. — Barack Obama

Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches than to see anything under your kilt," the man's voice said with an elegant aplomb. "Where would you like your guest's things, sir? — Tiffany Reisz

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself. — Bruce Weber

I'm scared," she said.
"Of me?" His voice was full of sorrow.
"Of everything. — E. Mellyberry

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven. — John Locke

I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension. — Nas

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price. — Cecile Richards

And it was exactly at this moment that the significant thing happened -if, indeed, it did happen. — George Orwell