Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Terence Winter

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.

Katharine Graham

Personal History ... I loved the first few chapters where she describes America's wealthy politicians and their inner circles. And the tracing of American politics...

Colin Cooper

I've read the original and I'm really looking forward to reading the new chapters by Hilary and Willie's kids,

George Robertson

I see this as turning a page on past disagreements and turning to new chapters of dialogue and cooperation on matters of mutual interest,

Samantha Power

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

Scott Westerfeld

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.

Mary Roach

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

Malcolm Rogers

Every painting has a life story, and part of the story of this Monet is an extremely painful one. However, its latest chapters may be triumphant.

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.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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

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 Watterson

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Ed Helms

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

Arthur Christiansen

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

Betty Friedan

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

Bob Woodward

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Bob Woodward

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

Amy Heckerling

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Jim Donahue

This is a better time of year to get a late-model car, ... and that will be reflected in the online price.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Bill Wright

The students in the online program do quite well on their tests.

Nan McCarthy

The texture of online relationships is totally different,

Greg Cook

Roughly two weeks ago, we had more than 4,000 online transactions.

John Tinker

The world hasn't ended. There is seasonality in online advertising. That's not surprising,

Miriam Kramer

It reads like one and it smells like one.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

Terry Teachout

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

Craig Brown

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

Ian Mcewan

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

William Shenstone

Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end

Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.