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.

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.

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

Steve Coogan

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

Tobias Wolff

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

V. S. Naipaul

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Indian Proverb

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Marc Otte

We are here as partners, as friends and we respect your sovereignty.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Christiane Amanpour

I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

Ralph Macchio

My life is all the richer for having known him, ... I will miss his genuine friendship.

Lauren Thompson

My friends in Mankato pay $200 a month for large rooms and I pay $295 a month for a room that is made for elves. The way I see it is if we are paying more we should at least see a difference.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Tricia Gaither

This is the first time we've had him for a whole year, and his program is one of the best. I think the sport specific things he does have helped me a lot and our team a lot.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

J. M. Roberts

That's like saying you shouldn't nominate Roberts because he helped with Roemer v. Evans,

Kim Cattrall

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

Shaun Sipos

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

Dan Simmons

Dr. Livingston's studies helped us identify the problems.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Dave McKean

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

Jon Huntsman

This could be the state of Utah we're talking about. We're doing it for our neighbors this time, but it could well have been Utah,

Tony Diggs

You all are the key. They trust their neighbors and their child's teachers more than any of the rest of us sitting up here.

Scott Edwards

It's going to be a quiet March. The neighbors (on the beach) should be happy.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Fidel Castro

Thank you Fidel Castro, thank you for existing.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Miley Cyrus

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Diane Keaton

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Ed Young

Father, thank you for the thrill that is in the air.

Abraham Maslow

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Daniel Defoe

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Alicia Silverstone

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.