Columns Quotes · Page 2

One should always dress like a marble column.

— Jackie Kennedy

“Oliver daydreams about Ionian columns.”

— Robin Sloan

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

— Larry Wall

A column about errors will contain errors.

— Bill Gold

There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for…

— Gene Mauch

I always got appreciation for the columns I wrote for newspapers.

— Divya Dutta

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

— Oscar Wilde

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

— Bernard Ingham

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

— Mary Roach

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

— Dennis Ritchie

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

— Robertson Davies

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just…

— Ernie Pyle

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns…

— Jason Kilar

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the…

— Ted Nugent

I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do.…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that…

— David Plotz

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I…

— James Surowiecki

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness…

— Russell Baker

The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of…

— Max Tundra

I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we…

— Sayed Kashua

More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star,…

— Matt Chandler

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building,…

— Tom Clancy

Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than…

— Tony Evans

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places…

— William Safire

Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us…

— Bob Tyrrell

That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that…

— Nat Hentoff

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from…

— Leigh Newman

The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the…

— Chris Hayes

And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct…

— Adam Parfrey

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

— Carson McCullers

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

— Alexander Pope

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

— Don Marquis

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

— Ellen Goodman

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

— William Safire

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

— George Burns

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

— Willem de Kooning

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this…

— Aleksandar Hemon

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

— Dave Barry