Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Dave Barry

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

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.

David Brock

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

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.

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.

Bill O'Reilly

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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

Bill Boynton

We?re interested, maybe intrigued, but not to the extent we would pursue it.

Rob Lowe

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Ned Collins

With the market's oversold condition, a small rally is expected. The extent has surprised everybody.

Lowell Peterson

We're hoping that that money will make its way to the workers, ... To some extent that is out of our hands.

Sherry Jeffe

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

Jim Johnstone

We've never been threatened to the extent that Katrina and Rita did, ... Unfortunately we're not going to have a true test of the system until that occurs.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Gary David Goldberg

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

David Feider

We're in a wait-and-see mode hoping that the river is opened to ocean-going traffic.

Stephanie Stoutenborough

We wanted to win the state last year, but we're hoping to do it this year.

Nathan Parsons

Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

Dale Martin

We've always wanted to go. We're hoping to get away from it all. Now that the kids are gone, it'll be a little easier.

Kelly Green

We're sore, rusty, out of shape and out of sync. We're hoping they'll get that out of their system (today).

Tony Russa

We're going to talk, and we're going to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Scott is really important, and we're hoping that what he's done is not too much too soon. That's why it's important we talk.

Jack Allen

What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.

Dave Bristow

We're going to have to wait for more tests. We were hoping this would tell us something.

Jim Talent

Uniquely with methamphetamine, the drug isn't just used and sold in our neighborhoods and communities, it's made in our neighborhoods and communities. We're hoping this will throttle local labs because they will not be able to get the pseudoephedrine they need ... but that does not mean it's going to throttle methamphetamine altogether.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Chris Colfer

I almost shat my pants. Literally, the floor was almost covered in my shat.

Aidan Quinn

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Eddie Izzard

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

Chad Knaus

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

Alexis Ohanian

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Bob Dylan

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

Edwin Edwards

Up with skirts, down with pants!'

Edward Abbey

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Phillip McGraw

You don't need stain-resistant pants to pop a blister.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Jessie Coiffard

We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard.

Wes Meier

We're going to have to (wait). There's no reason to pick one right now. It's not clear-cut enough to say one's better than the other.

Benjamin Franklin

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

Gary Williams

We're battling, and that's all you can do. This time of year, you can't make any trades, you can't pick up anybody. You have your team. This is what you do. You go play.

Roger Dow

Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Brian Posehn

Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Alain Prost

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot...

Catherine Bell

I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you

Kurt Vonnegut

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Ed Sheeran

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Sarah Garuti

When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me.

Charles Manson

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

Ari Fleischer

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'

Demi Moore

I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.