Overstylized Quotes & Sayings

I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football. — Ben Roethlisberger

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines. — Julius Rosenwald

Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not! — Xavier Dolan

Most writers cannot afford focus groups or A/B testing, but they can ask a roommate or colleague or family member to read what they wrote and comment on it. Your reviewers needn't even be a representative sample of your intended audience. Often it's enough that they are not you. This does not mean you should implement every last suggestion they offer. Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn't comply. Good prose is never written by a committee. A writer should revise in response to a comment when it comes from more than one reader or when it makes sense to the writer herself. — Steven Pinker

Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something. — Dan Futterman

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is. — Joe Frazier

That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion. — Geoffrey Wood