Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Pollan

But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.

Margaret Haddix

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Pat Oliphant

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Flannery O'Connor

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

George Plimpton

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Billy Bob Thornton

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

Deborah Tannen

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Eckhart Tolle

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Danielle Brian

We are talking about the same issues and in many cases the same players as before.

Kenneth Frazier

There could be those cases indeed. What we have to do is sift through them. We have not seen a case yet of a person who has taken the drug for that extended period on a continuous basis.

Andy Birchfield

If we have to try 10,000 cases so be it. We're ready.

Don Roose

I think domestic demand will hold up as long as we don't have a series of cases pop up.

Robert Daskas

I think he should try his cases in the courtroom and not in the media.

Harper Lee

She was born in the Objective case.

Horace

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Javy Lopez

I guess the team can't take it anymore. He has a few cases in the past. Once you get caught twice, three times, something is going on.

John Taylor

In some cases we were text-mailing because that was the only service available. In other cases we were hearing from them via relatives.