#cop

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

#copy #editors #every #machines #more

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

— Bill Walsh

#call #copy #early #editor #few

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#cop #field #i #knew #made

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#close #cop #department #field #got

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. ↗

— Alan Watts

#great #off #see #telescopes #thing

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#bands #copying #got #i #kid

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. ↗

— Orson Welles

#anything #because #being #cops #did

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. ↗

— Kanye West

#attempt #cause #cop-out #everybody #i

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent. ↗

— Barry White

#came #cat #chops #cops #detectives

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating. ↗

— Jack White

#anything #copying #hate #hear #hope