My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook Copy Share Image
I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Have you finished your column for tomorrow's headline?" It was Vee. She came up beside me, jotting notes on the notepad she… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on… — Eric Alterman 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
In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can… — Giles Coren 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
The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us… — Deborah Butterfield Copy Share Image
I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column… — Boy George Copy Share Image
More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star,… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it.… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
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 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
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes… — Rick Reilly Copy Share Image
The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image