Proofreaders Quotes & Sayings

Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I've learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas — Kelley Armstrong

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper. — Bill Walsh

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use. — William James

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad. — Blake Shelton

The birds are in their trees,
the toast is in the toaster,
and the poets are at their windows.
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The proofreaders are playing the ping-pong
game of proofreading,
glancing back and forth from page to page,
the chefs are dicing celery and potatoes,
and the poets are at their windows
because it is their job for which
they are paid nothing every Friday afternoon. — Billy Collins

I am better at math than spelling. — Spike Jonze

After Max's outburst at lunchtime, he steered clear of me the rest of the day, and after school, I rode out to Freak Lake to think. The leaves had long passed the bright orange phase and faded into brown, and the grass on the side of the road was stiff and dead. — Dan Wells

I have the best job in the world with the best fans in the world — Jeremy Davis

...she certainly was one of the best proofreaders around, and knew her way around there, their, and they're. — Sara Branmore

You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so ... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out. — Stephen King