A Quote by Larry Niven

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

Larry Niven

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Larry Niven
American - Writer
Born: April 30, 1938

It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

Harold Town

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

Condoleezza Rice

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam

One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

Martin Nolan

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Benmont Tench

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Frank Capra

Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

Martin Gardner

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

Francine Pascal

It's a sin to bore people.

R. C. Sproul

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Edith Head

It's a sin to bore people with the Bible.

Howard G. Hendricks

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

Howard G. Hendricks

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

Christina Rossetti

It's weird that I'm putting my old green and gold jersey, and I'm moving on to the cardinal and white. I'm a Stanford Cardinal.

Devon Cajuste

I have family and friends who are strong Cardinal fans, and they are having a tough time since I signed. They want to root for me, but rooting for the Cubs is next to a sin.

Ben Zobrist

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