Copyeditors Handbook Quotes & Sayings

They looked at each other. Like they knew everything about each other. Like that. But what exactly did they know, these strangers who were so familiar and intimate? You fought a war with someone, and you knew them. But you only knew the part that was in the war, the part that knew how to fight. The other part, the pedestrian part that lived in the endless calmness of days, you didn't know that part. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'. — Meg Whitman

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs. — Henry Adams

No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is a far greater thing that I do now, than I've ever done before. — Cassandra Clare

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. — W. Edwards Deming