Famous quotes containing the words outstanding, sound and/or editing:
“Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)