Funny Copy Editor Quotes & Sayings

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good. — Dan Savage

I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me. — Michael Ovitz

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important. — Bryant McGill

Sometimes life is filled with things outside your control — Hyde

It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities.
Mr Bill Berkowitz — A. J. Jacobs

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? — David R. Brower

We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst; and we saw men die violent deaths as they worked among the horses and cattle, or fought in evil feuds with one another; but we felt the beat of hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living. — Theodore Roosevelt

I first got into writing because I got involved in the production of a magazine for army wives. They were short of copy one day and the editor asked me to write a piece about being an army wife "and make it funny". Good at obeying orders I did as I was told, the piece was a success, I was asked to write a regular piece and slowly it ended up as a book. — Catherine Jones

Let's be honest: in ten years, the man-bun of the 2010s will be equivalent to the rat-tail of the 1980s. — Julie Johnson

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all. — Frederick Barthelme

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there. — David Twohy

I am often appalled by those who make history, but inspired by those who do not." -Morgana le Fey/Morgana Cornwall — J.M. Briggs

When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it. — Jami Attenberg

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just ... normal people. — Karen Carpenter

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W.E.B. Du Bois

You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz