Somebody Killed His Editor Quotes & Sayings

It is not cynical to admit the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added or removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and visions and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice! Do you know why the history of the Tower is in such turmoil? Because too many powerful men are fighting for the pen, fighting to write their story over our dead bodies. They know what is at stake: immortality, the character of civilization, and influence beyond the ages. They are fighting to see who gets to mislead our grandchildren. — Josiah Bancroft

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Pride is the archenemy of ministry. — Beth Moore

Choosing to live without hope is to knowingly extinguish ones own life. I choose to live, and so it may just be that hope is my closest companion. — Carrie Delatte

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189] — Akira Kurosawa

Better players make you a better player. — John C. Maxwell

We all do things where we don't care about other people. And we deal with it in whatever ways we can, denial or make excuses. — Rene Russo

I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them. — Tyler Posey

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. — Mark Twain

Why does a father have to protect his son?" I thought for a moment before answering. "Look," I said as I stroked his cheek, "the world we live in can sometimes be very tough. And it's only fair that everyone who's born into it should have at least one person who'll be there to protect him. — Etgar Keret

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous. — Jack Whitehall

Irwin Silber, the editor of the folk magazine Sing Out! was there, too. In a few years' time he would castigate me publicly in his magazine for turning my back on the folk community. It was an angry letter. I liked Irwin, but I couldn't relate to it. Miles Davis would be accused of something similar when he made the album Bitches Brew, a piece of music that didn't follow the rules of modern jazz, which had been on the verge of breaking into the popular marketplace, until Miles's record came along and killed its chances. Miles was put down by the jazz community. I couldn't imagine Miles being too upset. — Bob Dylan

I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you. — Suzanne Collins

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that. — Larry Page

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it. — Josh Lanyon

Emma: Whoa. Whoa ho ho.
Cristina: Did you just say "whoa ho ho"?
Emma: I did. So is this like a high-five-slash-chest-bump- situation or an oh-my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do-situation? — Cassandra Clare

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators. — Murray Kempton