Needlessly In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse. — Adrian McKinty

Some people have asked me where I find the large quantity of prepositions that I need to keep my Bookworms fit and well. The answer is, of course, that I use omitted prepositions, of which, when mixed with dropped definite articles, make a nourishing food. There are a superabundance of these in the English language — Jasper Fforde

How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons. — Alexandre Dumas

A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency. — Og Mandino

Each sentence should have proper meaning, details should not be needlessly repeated, and every sentence should add to the entertainment value in one way or another. — A.J. Flowers

Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence? — Sathya Sai Baba

True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect; it causes harm. — Dada Bhagwan

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish. — Theocritus

Put all your eggs in one basket ... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs. — J.D. Robb

It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted. — J.R. Rim

History shows that people are as changeable as rivers. — Andres Neuman

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong. — Jodi Picoult

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about. — James R Newman