Erik Larson I’ve really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can. – Erik Larson Adjectives Quotes Adverbs Quotes Strip Quotes Writing Quotes Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious. Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He’s a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.
David Hackworth Our fumbling government’s response since Beirut – during both Republican and Democratic administrations – has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away. – David Hackworth
Esther Dyson And the Russians certainly don’t have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she’s a crook. And that’s me, the nice American. The assumption that you can’t make money honestly is a killer. – Esther Dyson
Roberto Baggio Time never stood still for me. It went too fast; that was the bad thing about it! – Roberto Baggio
Jason Fried I think that sleep and work are very closely related – not because you can work while you’re sleeping and sleep while you’re working. That’s not really what I mean. I’m talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events. – Jason Fried
Georgia Salpa I like guys who wear nice clothes, nice jeans, nice trainers – I hate skinny jeans and those T-shirts that are really low-cut. – Georgia Salpa
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