I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
Whatever column you fall in - Christian, gay, straight, Black, White - there is no world where people exist that are exactly… — T.I Copy Share Image
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in.… — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In… — John M. Tyler Copy Share Image
One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe.… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman 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
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence… If we are to infiltrate the professional… — John Rawlings Rees Copy Share Image
I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of… — Alessandro Volta Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press?… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I used to give her [my wife] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image