Columns Quotes

212 quotes by 189 authors

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you canâ€™t teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman
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
Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and… — Mike Royko
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
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… — Thomas B. Macaulay
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
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to… — Laurie Notaro
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its… — Daniel Okrent
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 was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip… — Elia Kazan
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

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