Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Chan

He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on,

Joseph Cook

We took it out in the editing process,

William Safire

Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Woody Allen

The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.

Warren E. Burger

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

Spike Jonze

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

Erin Harmony

I'm more nervous about the showing (of the episode) than I was when they were here. When there's editing and stuff, you don't know exactly how it's going to turn out.

Miguel de Icaza

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

Henry Adams

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

Yukio Mishima

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Emile M. Cioran

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

John Calvin

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

Lucian Freud

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

Mahatma Gandhi

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

John Dryden

Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

John Knox

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Rudyard Kipling

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

Julia Cameron

I am due at the page.

Mary Higgins Clark

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.