James Thurber Quotes
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
James Thurber
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Orville Wright
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf
I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
Tasha Smith
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
Hank Azaria
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
Tanith Lee
When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
Pamela Nicholson
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Pasquier Quesnel
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
Randy Newman
A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
Candice Swanepoel
I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.
Victor Ponta
The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
Naomi Klein
When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
John C. Maxwell
I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn’t help but wonder why. Didn’t they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I’m one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don’t apply to me.
Jarvis Cocker
Pulp
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.
Oprah Winfrey
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
James Thurber
