Columns Quotes - Page 5

• 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 - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

  Leslie Jamison

  Beautiful, Color, Jail

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.72, Granta Books

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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 columns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Want, Stuff, Newspapers

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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 atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Elements, Weight

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• Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

  Heloise

  Turkeys, Cups, Liquid

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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, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

  Neal Boortz

  Men, Emotional, Too Much

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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 from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.

  Leigh Newman

  Brother, Moving, Book

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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

  Song, Oil, Long

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• When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

  Maureen Dowd

  Writing, Thinking, Black

  "Comics in context #78: summoned to sin city" by Peter Sanderson, www.ign.com. April 1, 2005.

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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

  Eye, Science, Diagnosis

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.

  Boy George

  Media, Clubs, Inches

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest.

  Charlie Munger

  Numbers, Vices, Arguing

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• The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.

  Stanislaw Lem

  War, Understanding, Enemy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “Peace on Earth”, p.59, HMH

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• It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

  Rick Reilly

  Sports, Country, Reading

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• So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Community, Looks

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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 of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.

  John M. Tyler

  Nature, Science, Brain

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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 fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Clouds, Light

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• I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.

  Martin Walker

  Writing, New Orleans, Way

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

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• A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

  Chauncey Depew

  Witty, Illustration, Stories

  Chauncey Mitchell DePew (2005). “My Memories of Eighty Years”, p.318, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.

  Neal Ascherson

  Summer, Country, Rain

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• We do have, I'm sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we're going to have to be a lot braver... in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

  Nigel Farage

  Christian, Country, Culture

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• I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with McClain J., www.teenink.com.

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• You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Long, Comforting

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

  Dave Barry

  Should, Committees, Editorials

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Bible, Rumor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

  Thomas Sowell

  News Stories, Self, Views

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