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editors pages today
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it. Diane Wakoski
editors chaos theory
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. David Mitchell
editors two scott-fitzgerald
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. Dave Barry
editors worry goal
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
editors public-opinion politician
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. Austin O'Malley
editors two people
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 Nye
editors denver pot
The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot. Bill O'Reilly
editors use paper
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 Walsh
editors wake-up bedtime
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call
two bored earth
I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it. Carol Vorderman
two way arguing
There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work. Carlos Boozer
two firsts thirds
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third. C. S. Lewis
two rabbits three
At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.
two voice piano
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices. Agnes Obel
two people black
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote. Agnes Varda
two half lines
Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it. Aaron Tveit
two people looks
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for. Aaron Sorkin
two stupidity littles
There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much. Alan Sugar
challenges flaw mistake player stick
When you're young like that, you just have to stick to those things that you do really, really well. With a player like that, it's never a mistake or a flaw in his game, it's just about how he harnesses it and challenges it. Darryl Sutter
challenges pilots tests
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. Alan Shepard
challenges problem failing
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems. Alan Kay
challenges consumers excuse good low millions people resources
There are a lot of challenges for people who are low income. There are significant resources being put in by drug companies, and millions of consumers are benefiting from these programs. This is just a good excuse for them to get out of those programs.
challenges contest determined difficult economic employees environment face industry intense none people proven rapid undergoing
The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing a rapid transformation; intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win. Carly Fiorina
challenges succeed i-have-learned
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them. Richard Paul Evans
challenges everybody
Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different. Tracy Pollan
challenges soul path
Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths Brian Weiss
challenges hiv sticks
The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.' Brande Roderick