Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Stanley Walker

Stanley Walker (editor) Quotes

2 Sourced Quotes

    • Source
    • Report...
Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond or a mistress. Too many are dangerous. Because one adjective is as revealing as a lightning flash, don't think that ten will make the story ten times as good. There is a law of diminishing returns.

Stanley Walker
    • Source
    • Report...
The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost.

Stanley Walker

Quote of the day

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Stanley Walker

Stanley Walker

Born: 1898
Died: 1962 (aged 64)
Bio: Stanley Walker was an editor of the New York Herald Tribune in the first half of the 20th century.
Known for:
  1. The Night Club Era (1933)
  2. Mrs. Astor's Horse (1935)
  3. City Editor (1934)
  4. Dewey, an American of this century (1944)
  5. Pipe Dreams: Book Two

WikipediaStanley Walker on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

American Editor Quotes
Editor Quotes
20th-century Editor Quotes

Featured Authors

Elizabeth I of EnglandAndré GideJean-Paul SartreDonald TrumpJane AustenMartin Luther King, Jr.Martin ScorseseLewis CarrollSteve JobsUmberto EcoCharles DarwinVirgil

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes