Strain Due Applied

Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:

    You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:24.

    Olivia. There lies your way, due west.
    Viola. Then westward ho!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free- floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader’s full attention.
    William Burroughs (b. 1914)