Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adlai Stevenson

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

Donald Davis

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Anthony Edwards

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

D. B. Sweeney

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

David Zinczenko

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Amanda Hocking

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Robert Anton Wilson

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Tracy

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane D. Hull

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.