Quotes by Editors

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. Daniel Okrent

Pundits Know Reporters Who Ridicule

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other. Daniel Okrent

News Me Enemies Nothing Other Despite Opinion Hired Commenting Times Department Want Rabid Really Pages Each Two

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. Daniel Okrent

Complicated About Fact Opinions Context Issue Very

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. Daniel Okrent

Conservative Sense Think Libertarian More He Also Than Conventional

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. Daniel Okrent

Think Distinction Inside Make Information Expertise Then Right

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. Denis Diderot

Would Kings Guts Had Priest He His Hands Rope Strangle

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. Denis Diderot

Faith Good Man Hurt Pure Living Fine Wear He Although Does Any May Being Clothing Holy Peacefully Lives

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. Denis Diderot

Gratitude Burden Made Every Shaken Off

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. Denis Diderot

Liable Our Virtues More Catch Than Vices Far Associates

Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot

Music Good Language Good Music Primitive Very Close

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. Denis Diderot

Theatre Tears Men Wicked Virtuous Alike Pit Where Place

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. Denis Diderot

Signs Nothing Relations Abstract Study Between Sciences

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. Denis Diderot

Age Genius Events Men Every Extraordinary Unless Melt Carrying Remain Mass Within Occur Up Heat Them Forth Present Flows

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. Denis Diderot

Government Good Result Bad Morals Countries Legislation African Asian European

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. Diana Vreeland

Nothing Dressed Well Refusal Being Elegance Innate

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola. Diana Vreeland

Beautiful Most Beautiful Since Most Beautiful Things Blue Blue Jeans Jeans Things

Exaggeration is my only reality. Diana Vreeland

Exaggeration Reality Only

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed. Diana Vreeland

You Woman Other Only Were Existed Room

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot. Ellen Datlow

Me Dark Finding Horror Instinct Feels Overlap Lot Difference Fantasy