Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

Gabriele Nanni

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

Daniel Okrent

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

Daniel Okrent

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

Daniel Okrent

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Margaret Anderson

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Margaret Anderson

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

Margaret Anderson

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Margaret Anderson

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Ferdinand Foch

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Peter Arnett

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

Evan Bayh

We have to learn from these mistakes so that we do better to minimize the number of casualties to win this thing, ... It's the lack of any introspection that I find to be very troubling.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

David Benelli

There will be a lot of police officers that will think this is another word for civilian review board.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Stuart Symington

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Jimmy Carter

Nigeria is the most influential country on the continent, and under a civilian leader who is freely elected by the people and trusted by the international community, I think Nigeria will be even more influential,

Ben Bernanke

Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.

Javier Solana

NATO is preparing to go further if required to halt the violence and protect the civilian populations (in Kosovo),

The Archives

has not been discussed in any meeting I've been in. And I would estimate I've been in at least 100 meetings.

Neil Howard

We've already discussed it, and it's a good possibility.

Dan Bartlett

I've never heard the two even discussed together.

Harry Redknapp

I've not discussed it with Milan yet. I don't know where it's at yet. But if someone's going to come in and we are going to be able to improve the playing squad, which we need to do, it's got to be good for the football club.

Sarah Williams

We met with them and discussed the purchase - if not the outright purchase of the whole property, then for parts of it.

Don Madden

Two years ago we discussed with the state about providing water to Dillon State Park.

Mike Gundy

We discussed it in a mature manner, and he handled it with integrity,

Derek Jeter

We discussed it briefly for about five minutes and I haven't heard anything else about it, ... It wasn't like a threat or anything like that. It was just a letter from some guy. I haven't even thought about it again.

Gary Bettman

We discussed a variety of options and I don't want to focus on any one because it would seriously be misconstrued and be potentially inflammatory,

Robin Hobb

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

Ken Auletta

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Ken Follett

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Terri Windling

A good novel editor is invisible.

Len Wein

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

Len Wein

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Phil Crosby

When in doubt, delete it.

Scott Pelley

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

James Nachtwey

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.