28 Superfluous Quotes for You to Enjoy

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. Paulo Coelho

Beautiful Human Being Simplicity Will Has-Been Superfluous Posture More Simpler Concentration Discarded Been Discovers Human Achieved Being Sober Elegance

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. Will Durant

Needs Man Own Anarchist Neighbor Superfluous Case Laws Only He Sure Because His Privately Them Ask Many Thinks

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. Abbe Pierre

You Thought Become Society Those Superfluous General Only Givers Were Question Beggars Place Asked Who Now Needed

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. Voltaire

Funny Superfluous Very Thing Necessary

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci

Beautiful Nature Simple Will Invention Nothing Superfluous Direct More Inventions Never Devise Because Does Than Lacking Human Subtlety Her

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men. Annie Besant

Life God Needs Religion Knowledge Men Nothing Else Everything Everything Else Superfluous Surface Than Essence Which Eternal Eternal Life Less Save

I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories. Cary Fukunaga

Love Superfluous Idea Most Stories

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true. Eddie Redmayne

Work You Theatre People Seen Sense Think Complete Must Superfluous True Camera Lot Than Gets Anything Much Film Harder

Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous. Fabio Quagliarella

Great Extra Add Superfluous Something Foreign Lot Them Players

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp. Francine Prose

Ability See Emerge Superfluous More Writer Clear Sharp Economical Look Altered Polished Snap Ultimately Revised Any Essential Form Place Sentence Cut Shrink Satisfying

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect. Gretchen Rubin

Writing Words Sometimes Become Some Superfluous Seem Tends Overall Effect Dense Very Essential Cushion Keep Actually

I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself. Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Myself You Cooking Yourself People Sometimes Impress Think Would Superfluous More Only Take Mature Get Essential Dish Flavor Younger Cook Plate Now Away Things

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous. Jonathan Galassi

Superfluous Attached Writers Almost Most Always

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream. Julia Glass

Work Time Library School Pay Our Summer High High School Superfluous Week Lifeguard Could Through Counselor Never Almost Days Looked Camp Five Grade Ice Ice Cream Public Cream Worked Fifth Public Library Forward Four

I think it's a mistake to think, 'Am I going to write a young adult book, or do I desperately want to write a book for adults?' I think the better ambition is to try to write someone's favorite book, because those categorizations of adult, young adult, become kind of superfluous. Markus Zusak

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. Percy Bysshe Shelley

You Problem Worth Stupid Superfluous Case Something Crux Sure Said Comment Very May Either Which Formidable Thing

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible. Rosa Luxemburg

Democracy Political Political Power Power On The Contrary Proletariat Possible Superfluous Both Indispensable Seizure Because Makes Contrary Conquest Necessary

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. Saint Bernard

Knowledge Sometimes Superfluous Need

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them. Seamus Heaney

God Behavior Sense Took Superfluous Seemed Given Aristocrat Unspoken Sake Were Itself Just Them Persuasion Granted Code Speech

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. Seth Shostak

Sideline reporting may look insidious, superfluous, or just a total waste of airtime from where you sit - probably on a couch or a recliner, perhaps on a bar stool in your local brewery - but let me assure you, if you're one of the handful who take it as seriously as some of my colleagues do, it is anything but. Suzy Shuster

Me You Seriously Sit Assure Local Sideline Colleagues Total Insidious Some Superfluous Couch Take Perhaps Look Handful Reporting May Stool Just Where Anything Bar Your Who Waste

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