Omissions Quotes
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.
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More Omissions Quotes
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the Omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.
— "Looking Back on U.S.A.," New York Times, Oct 25 1959
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many Omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
— Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978 radio drama and 1979 novel), opening segment, comparing the fictitious eponymous guide to the fictitious Encyclopedia Galactica.
Omissions are not accidents.
— 1956 Ewing Lecture, University of California, 3 Oct.
Omissions are not accidents.
— 1967 Epigraph to Complete Poems.
The organization chart is a sort of map, an aerial photograph if you like, in which all linkages between the individuals listed are complete and no disagreements or Omissions occur.
— Adrian F. Furnham, Barrie Gunter (1993) Corporate assessment: auditing a company's personality. p.180
