Column Quotes

148 quotes by 127 authors

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save… — Bryant H. McGill
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one… — Salman Rushdie
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. — William Safire
I don't write about my life in my column. — Dan Savage
Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of… — Dan Savage
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do… — Dan Stevens
If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple… — Ayelet Waldman
As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column… — Regina Brett
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My… — Regina Brett
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as… — Regina Brett
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock… — Dorothy Parker
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a… — Jonathan Stroud
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be… — Victor Hugo
He did a very good impression of a stone column. — Shannon Hale
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the… — Terry Pratchett
My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound… — Terry Pratchett
In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most… — Laura Hillenbrand
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column… — Heinrich Heine

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