Column Quotes

148 quotes by 127 authors

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid. — Dick Schaap
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line… — John M. Tyler
Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved. — David Plotz
Ð weekly column is really tough. — David Plotz
I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having… — David Plotz
I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing… — David Plotz
A column about errors will contain errors. — Bill Gold
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head… — Slobodan MiloseviÄ‡
The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. — Dennis Ritchie
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often… — Daniel Alarcon
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There… — Henry Timrod
The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me,… — Dhani Jones
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. — Walter Cronkite
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen. — Maureen Dowd
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't… — Simon Hoggart
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. — Nicholas D. Kristof
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written.… — Charles Kuralt

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