Bluepenciled Quotes & Sayings

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there ... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

She sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.'
'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning.
'Fair enough. — Veronica Roth

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis. — George W. Bush

We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least." — Merrilee Boyack

When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them. — Steven Pressfield

Simplicity itself. Skin, debone, demarrow, scarify, melt, render down and destroy. Every adjective that counted, every verb that moved, every metaphor that weighed more than a mosquito
out! Every simile that would have made sub-moron's mouth twitch
gone! Any aside that explained the two-bit philosophy of a first-rate writer
lost!
Every story slenderized, starved, bluepenciled, leeched and bled white, resembled every other story. Twain read like Poe read Shakespeare read like Dostoevsky read like
in the finale
Edgar Guest. Every word of more than three syllables had been razored. Every image that demanded so much as one instant's attention
shot dead. — Ray Bradbury

I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects. — DJ Shadow

Something I chose to forget because it didn't fit in with how shit everything was. — Patrick Ness

I realized that modern flirting was essentially just being mean while smiling. — Anna Kendrick

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it. — Paul Bryant

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat. — Kate Winslet

Although the fact that someone was lying face-down in the street gutter and leaking blood into it did detract somewhat from the otherwise pleasant scene of life flowing through the less salubrious arteries of Crath City. — Mark Lawrence

When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength ...
Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing. — Mengistu Haile Mariam

Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics. — Michael Leunig

Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon ... probably the demigod Hazel admired most. He'd saved her life so many times on their quest to Alaska; but when he had needed Hazel's help in Rome, she'd failed him. She'd watched, powerless, as he and Annabeth had plunged into that pit. — Rick Riordan

So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face. — Joshua Bell