Columns Quotes
212 quotes by 191 authors
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
— Dave Barry
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as…
— Jo Bonner
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in…
— Mitch Albom
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've…
— Candace Bushnell
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half…
— Candace Bushnell
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it…
— Herb Caen
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
— Dick Cavett
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than…
— Adrienne Clarkson
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I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on…
— Eric Alterman
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I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.
— George Burns
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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
— Gloria Steinem
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Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these…
— John Vianney
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There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable…
— George C. Marshall
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He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
— Robertson Davies
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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
— George Bernard Shaw
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One should always dress like a marble column.
— Jackie Kennedy
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Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
— Friedrich Schiller
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The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem…
— John Allen Paulos
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