I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
Lynn Abbey

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
Jonathan Dimbleby

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
Elizabeth Taylor

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
Thomas Bulfinch

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Morris Raphael Cohen

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason Cooley

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
Cathy Guisewite

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
Emile Zola

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm

It is important for us consciously to say, or claim, only the things we want rather than what we do not want.
Darren L. Johnson

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
Joyce Carol Oates

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
Gregory Bateson

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
Gerrit Smith