Column Quotes

148 quotes by 127 authors

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together.… — Michael Musto
My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's… — Erma Bombeck
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great… — Art Buchwald
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. — Edward Hoagland
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to… — Frank Moore Colby
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of… — William Safire
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. — W. P. Kinsella
Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake… — Guy Ritchie
Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our… — Cheryl Strayed
Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column. — Frederick Lenz
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space. — Jeremy Clarkson
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. — Phillip Lopate
Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming… — Andy Richter
I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s. — Hale Irwin
The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate… — Robert Pozen
In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business… — James L. Barksdale
Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column. — Rory Bremner
Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies,… — Neal Boortz
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman

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