“I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.”
Nick Hornby
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
William Shakespeare
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
“The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.”
William Jennings Bryan
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
Bible
“It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation”
Robert Benchley
“They have distorted, they have omitted and they have created a profoundly erroneous impression.”
Nicole Seligman
