William Safire Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

  William Safire

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

• To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

  William Safire

  Order, Giving, Purpose

• After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

  William Safire

  White, Giving, Satisfaction

  William Safire (2011). “Language Maven Strikes Again”, p.480, Doubleday

• The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .

  William Safire

  Nice, Cfo, Giving

  William Safire (1988). “Coming to terms”, Doubleday

• Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

  William Safire

  Knowing, Space, Boxing

  William Safire (1991). “Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage”, Laurel

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