Columns Quotes

212 quotes by 191 authors

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. — Dick Cavett
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
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
I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast. — George Burns
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
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
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
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. — Robertson Davies
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. — George Bernard Shaw
One should always dress like a marble column. — Jackie Kennedy
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
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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