Quotes by Editor

"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."

Susan Taylor, American Editor

Faith, Growth, Crisis

"Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking."

Susan Taylor, American Editor

Power, Thoughts, Energy, Thinking

"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."

Susan Taylor, American Editor

Achievement, Understanding

"We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here."

Susan Taylor, American Editor

Time, Dreams, Eternity

"We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order."

Susan Taylor, American Editor

Time, Opportunity, Mind, Order

"If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people."

Richard Stengel, American Editor

People,

"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."

Richard Stengel, American Editor

Corporate, Museums

"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."

Ted Solotaroff, American Editor

Aggression, Energy, Writer

"98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying."

David Remnick, American Editor

People, Cartoons, First, Lying

"A good title is the title of a successful book."

Robert C. Gallagher, American Editor

Success, Successful

"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Robert C. Gallagher, American Editor

Forget,

"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."

Robert C. Gallagher, American Editor

Art, Bed, Conversation

"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."

Robert C. Gallagher, American Editor

Change, Machine

"In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer."

Dennis Flanagan, American Editor

Age, Life, People

"Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name."

Dennis Flanagan, American Editor

Idea, Being, Name, Right

"Science is what scientists do."

Dennis Flanagan, American Editor

Science, Scientists

"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide."

Stephen Evans, American Editor

Genocide, Nothing, Thanksgiving

"Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours."

Stephen Evans, American Editor

Life, Time, Will

"Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy."

Stephen Evans, American Editor

Death,

"God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars."

Stephen Evans, American Editor

God, Power, Knowledge, Care

"Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand."

Thomas D'Evelyn, American Editor

Light, Tongue

"When I was a young man, I had a mentor on women and he said when you meet a woman that you think you like, don't ask her for a drink. Take her out for a bowl of soup. Because a woman who can enjoy a bowl of soup is bound to be more interesting."

Art Cooper, American Editor

Woman, Women, Man

"When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls."

Art Cooper, American Editor

Woman, Women, Impression, Being, Boys

"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."

Henry S. Canby, American Editor

Arrogance,

"There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24."

John Campbell, American Editor

Music, Quality, People, Being

"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."

John Campbell, American Editor

Job, Years

"You have to keep in mind that we don't run Windows, we don't have disks, we don't do Internet."

John Campbell, American Editor

Internet, Mind, Windows

"I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign."

John Campbell, American Editor

Months,

"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."

Charles Williams, English Editor

Balance, Play

"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."

Charles Williams, English Editor

Forgiveness, Doctrine, Magnificence, Modesty

"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."

Bill Walsh, American Editor

Media, Writers

"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."

Bill Walsh, American Editor

Communication, Compliment, Nothing, Praise

"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, American Editor

Media, Editors, Machines, Word

"If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked."

Bill Walsh, American Editor

Media, Error, Rules

"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."

Diana Vreeland, American Editor

Personal, Elegance, Mind, Rest

"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity."

Diana Vreeland, American Editor

Society, Vanity

"Pink is the navy blue of India."

Diana Vreeland, American Editor

Fashion, Navy

"Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more."

Diana Vreeland, American Editor

Fashion, Clothes, Evening

"What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen."

Alice B. Toklas, American Editor

Individuality, May, Turkey

"This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand."

Alice B. Toklas, American Editor

Humor, Evening, Will, Years

"Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops."

William Shawn, American Editor

Literature, Perfection

"I don't remember what I did fifty years ago."

Julius Schwartz, American Editor

Time, Years

"Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad."

Julius Schwartz, American Editor

Writing, Editors, Writers

"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."

Harold Ross, American Editor

Journalism, Writers

"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."

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"Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking."

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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."

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"We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here."

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"We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order."

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"If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people."

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"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."

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"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."

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"98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying."

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"A good title is the title of a successful book."

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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

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"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."

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"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."

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"In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer."

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"Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name."

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"Science is what scientists do."

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"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide."

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"Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours."

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"Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy."

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"God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars."

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"I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living."

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"I'd rather be dead than dying."

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"There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death."

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"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference."

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"What is the value of your existence?"

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"I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die."

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"Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand."

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"When I was a young man, I had a mentor on women and he said when you meet a woman that you think you like, don't ask her for a drink. Take her out for a bowl of soup. Because a woman who can enjoy a bowl of soup is bound to be more interesting."

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"When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls."

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"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."

​

"There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24."

​

"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."

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"You have to keep in mind that we don't run Windows, we don't have disks, we don't do Internet."

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"I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign."

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"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."

​

"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."

​

"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."

​

"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."

​

"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."

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"If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked."