#cop

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#back #cabinet #college #copy #days

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#am #back #copenhagen #days #flying

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

#cardinal #checked #copy #editing #error

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