Column Quotes

148 quotes by 127 authors

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities… — John Rawlings Rees
There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts. — Gene Mauch
When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick… — Allan Sloan
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. — Allan Sloan
Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in… — Tony Evans
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to… — P.G. Wodehouse
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I… — Bobby Fischer
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why… — Ian Shoales
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one… — Jonathan Messinger
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the… — Ann Veneman
In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of… — Marc Thiessen
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and… — Robert Scheer
Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer… — Gabriela Mistral
Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists… — Robert Novak
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper… — Toby Young
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los… — Robert Scheer
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are… — Holly Johnson
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear… — Ferdinand Mount
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most… — Toby Young
In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at… — James Lee Burke

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