The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“Columnists write not just because they have something to say but also because they have to say something.” — John Grimond Copy Share Image
What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist." — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings. — Walter Winchell Copy Share Image
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living."… — John Leo Copy Share Image
When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Donald Trump announced his no Muslims are allowed to come to the United States plan and that led to one of the… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them… — Ann Friedman Copy Share Image
I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into. — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with… — William Safire Copy Share Image