Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Wakoski

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.

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.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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

Austin O'Malley

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

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.

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 Walsh

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

Charles Dickens

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Thomas Dewar

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes

Meryl Streep

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.

Terry Francona

It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you're picking up dirty clothes and you're doing all the tasks that the players - that nobody else wants to do.

Diane von Furstenberg

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

Diane von Furstenberg

I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.

Diablo Cody

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

Tori Kelly

My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I always want to be comfortable in my clothes and feel like myself, but I like to usually throw in some edge in there somewhere, even just with a leather jacket. But overall, always gotta keep it classy!

Cameron Russell

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

C. S. Lewis

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

David Prowse

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Kiesza

To be honest, I'm more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.

Ray Durham

When the legs are healthy, I can do the things I want to do. Right now, my legs are strong.

William Shakespeare

Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.

Blanka Vlasic

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.

Bob Dylan

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

Dick Dale

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

Karl Kraus

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.