Columns Quotes
212 quotes by 191 authors
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Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
— Rory Bremner
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
— Larry Wall
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When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper…
— Carl Hiaasen
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You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail…
— Leslie Jamison
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Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies,…
— Neal Boortz
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Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything…
— Leigh Newman
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The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.
— James Lee
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If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
— Dick Schaap
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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
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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
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Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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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
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Ð weekly column is really tough.
— David Plotz
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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
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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
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A column about errors will contain errors.
— Bill Gold
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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 Milosević
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These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
— Bayard Taylor
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