When In Doubt Quotes - Page 5

When in doubt...shoe it out.

Heidi Montag

Shoes, Doubt

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When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than three details. A character's arc? Three beats. A story? Three acts. An act? Three sequences. A plot point culminating in a mystery of a twist? At least three mentions throughout the tale. This is an old rule, and a good one. It's not universal - but it's a good place to start.

Chuck Wendig

Writing, Character, Play

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One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

Kurt Vonnegut

War, School, Government

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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When in doubt, grab power.

Caspar Weinberger

Doubt

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When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

E. A. Bucchianeri

Doubt, Littles, Have A Little Faith

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When in doubt, wear a suit.

Carine Roitfeld

Doubt, Suits

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When in doubt, make a red painting.

Kay WalkingStick

Doubt, Red, Painting

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When in doubt, I go to the phones a lot because it adds a new dimension and a new energy. It kind of takes me out of the equation if I feel like I irritated them or they aren't into the experience.

Andy Cohen

Phones, Doubt, Dimensions

"Andy Cohen Shares the Secret to a Good Watch What HappensGame, the Guest He's Still Dying to Have on, and So Much More". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2016.

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When in doubt, shoot. That's how I look at it.

Stephon Marbury

Doubt, Looks

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When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?

Jon Stewart

Eyebrows, Doubt, Cameras

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.

Philip Sington

Writing, Light, White

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When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out. I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?

Ilona Andrews

Cheerleading, Team, Hands

Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.58, Penguin

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When in doubt, use Caslon.

William Caslon

Design, Doubt, Use

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In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.

Jo Grimond

Political, Doubt, One Day

Speech at Liberal Party Annual Assembly, 14 Sept. 1963, in Guardian 16 Sept. 1963

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I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I prayed earnestly to God to help me, and I well remember that I attributed my success to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marvelled how generally I was aided.

Charles Darwin

Running, Prayer, Successful

Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.77, NYU Press

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Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

Grandmother, Political, Doubt

Woodrow Wilson (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Sherwood Smith

Doubt, Ridiculous

"Remalna's Children". Book by Sherwood Smith, November 19, 2011.

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Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.

Roy Ash

Humorous, Doubt, Policy

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When in doubt, zoom out.

Reggie Watts

Doubt, Zoom

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When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

Laurell K. Hamilton

Funny Life, Doubt

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Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

Warren Buffett

Business, Two, Doubt

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When in doubt, pig out!

Jim Davis

Pigs, Doubt

Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Pigs Out: His 42nd Book”, Ballantine Group

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When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

Tamora Pierce

Doubt, Wizards, Beka Cooper

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When in doubt, exchange.

John G. Zimmerman

Doubt

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My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

Nigel Rees

Father, Taken, Mean

"Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.

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