Proofreader Quotes

#1. I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

Christine Vachon

#3. PROOFREADER'S MARKS

Jan Venolia

#4. And last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading ... excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors ... I'm not a proofreader of any great merit.

Mark Twain

#5. I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

Sam Trammell

#6. Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing

David Halberstam

#7. Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?

James C. Collins

#9. In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Simon McBurney

#10. When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept.

Aldous Huxley

#11. Use each moment to make another's eyes sparkle and to warm a heart.

Doreen Virtue

#12. A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Thomas Dekker

#13. The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

Samuel Morse

#14. A Witch with a weak song is barely a Witch at all.

Amber Argyle

#15. I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.

Michelle Rowen

#16. I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.

Maeve Binchy

#17. Yosemite Park ... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.

John Muir

#18. The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

Adyashanti

#19. The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

Kat Lahr