Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Mankoff

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

James Salter

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

Lionel Barber

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

Katharine Weymouth

Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.

M. Thompson

There is a distinction between something that has gone through an editorial process as opposed to something put up by someone that has been through none of those processes,

James Carville

He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough.

James Carville

He's got to show the right-wingers that he's got backbone. Go ahead, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. Show them you're tough.

Michael Wolf

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

Garth Nix

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

Jami Attenberg

Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.

Chris Evans

I don't keep a journal.

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Jim Kelly

I don't know why a journalist in that position would not talk.

Sue Monk Kidd

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

David Horsey

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.

Peter Gray

There are over 30 journal entries for just one transaction.

Aaron Swartz

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

Bertie Carvel

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Abdul Kalam

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Hermann Havermann

There are only 100-million Web pages right now in Arabic, and that's nothing. It's only 0.2 percent of the total worldwide.

Sergio Aragones

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

Matt Cutts

We'll probably also need some assurances that such pages won't reappear on the sites before the domains can be re-included.

Abigail Adams

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Maya Angelou

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

Fred Thompson

To have 27 pages ripped out that were under a congressional subpoena, and then not taking vigorous steps to find out what happened, is outrageous,

Don Winslow

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Charles Spurgeon

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Charles Portis

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Olson

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Diane Keaton

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Dennis Prager

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Denis Diderot

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Edgar Allan Poe

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Edgar Allan Poe

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

Brian McCloskey

We got a little cute. We started watching ourselves." ()

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.