Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Wakoski

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

David Mitchell

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Dave Barry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Austin O'Malley

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Bill Nye

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

Bill O'Reilly

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Bill Walsh

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Bill Walsh

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

David Levithan

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

Carol Wheeler

clearly, she was a very healthy fetus and had done really well during those first 24 hours.

Jerry Weller

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Atharva Veda

WHEN you scatter seeds on the surface of the soil, they do not germinate; you have to keep them inside the soil.

Chauncey Billups

We were trying to go to him, inside and outside. We were going to keep going to him until he got tired.

Aaron Rodgers

When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

The Mighty Hannibal

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

Libba Bray

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

John Lydon

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

Henry Thomas

We struggled from the perimeter, we struggled inside we struggled on the boards. We struggled every place tonight.

Takeru Kobayashi

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

Natassia Malthe

I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Edgar Degas

Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me.

David Wimhurst

From that we may be able to start to get a picture of who was involved.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

Christopher Dixon

One picture is not going to make a significant difference.

Thomas Kinkade

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

Mark Parr

The real story here is the much-improved profitability picture that has emerged.

Joan Miro

You can look at a picture for a week an never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Ken Starr

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Mo Johnston

We weren't as sharp offensively as we'd like to be. We just couldn't finish.

Brandon Jennings

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

Steve Roberts

He was real sharp for the most part.

Matt Nosack

He was dialed in and he was very sharp for this time of the year.

Frank Robinson

He was very sharp today with his pitches,

Jeff Bower

We took a step back on offense. We weren't very sharp at anything on that side of the ball.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Thomas Harrison

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.