Copyeditors Checklist Quotes & Sayings

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm ... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!' — Neon Hitch

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes. — Baltasar Gracian

(But does time honour things? Sabine would teach me to ask. How? Why? And if it does, ought it to go on doing so? And for how long?) — A.P.

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore. — Charles Burnett

Don't ask who planted the bomb; in those days there were many such planters, many gardeners of violence. — Salman Rushdie

Money is a tool that can either fix or damage your life. Use it wisely. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms. — Randy Neugebauer

Cono knew that all three of his tormentors would know the anthem by heart from their childhood years. They had sung it daily to belong to the elite of their country, wearing around their necks the red ties of the Communist Party Youth Brigade, which had formed their beings and all that they would be and would ever believe, even as communism became a ghost and the party a web of corruption. — Victor Robert Lee

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team. — Steve Case

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language. — Thomas More

God's Word is not a book of human ideas ... it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live. — Billy Graham

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well ... just realistic. — Faraaz Kazi

It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets. — Neal Stephenson

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi