Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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,

Katharine Weymouth

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Matthew Storin

Cynthia is one of the nation's most skillful editorial writers and commentators.

Charlie Chaplin

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

Charlie Chaplin

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Charlie Chaplin

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charles Caleb Colton

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Dickens

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

Charles Simmons

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Alan Watts

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Alan Moore

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

David Sedaris

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Cesar Romero

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

Sam Brown

We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.

Dan Boone

We've become a joke to much of the thinking world.

Will Friedle

When we did Batman: Return of the Joker, the Joker is played by Mark Hamill, so I got to sit next to Mark Hamill for two straight weeks.

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Neil Smith

We are all one team. We are always picking each other up during the games, and when we aren't playing we all laugh and joke around together.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Bronwyn Belling

We used to joke that more stories were written about reverse mortgages than loans originated.

Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charles Tupper

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Philip Roth

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Jim Coleman

We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Richard Jaffe

There is no question the stores are prepped and warned.

Phillip Fulmer

There is no question that we're not where we need to be on offense. But I think we can get there.

Nariman Behravesh

There is no question that we are going out in this year with a lot of momentum.

Bonnie Campbell

There is no question that (the law) is making a difference.

Julie Myers

There is no question that our communities are safer with individuals like these off our streets.

Gary Loveman

There is no question that international is the place to be.

Nell Leyshon

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

Lois Lowry

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Irish Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

A lot of it is just having a vision and tapping into the university.

David Cox

She exited the vehicle and was very frantic.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Chris Squire

We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Aaliyah

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

Ian Baxendell

An MFO vehicle was damaged. The two occupants of the vehicle are unharmed and uninjured.

Barry Eisler

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

James Mercer

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

Tom Stephens

I'm going after the highest-consuming vehicles first, because that's where the big payback is.