Columns Quotes

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.

Louis Kahn

Wall, Artist, Light

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Wall, Events, Architecture

"Dead man building: is Louis Kahn's posthumous New York project his best?" by Oliver Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2014.

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The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

Winston Churchill

Three, Speechless

Winston Churchill (1973). “Liberalism and the Social Problem”, Haskell House

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I don't write about my life in my column.

Dan Savage

Writing

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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

Autumn, Editors, Fudge

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It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

Paul Ryan

Tired, Wind, Yesterday

Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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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 ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

Cutting, Glasses, Pieces

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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Willem de Kooning

Hype, Greek, Style

1949 'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.

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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Arne Jacobsen

Block, Air, Greek

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

Confused, Men, Temples

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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Bryant H. McGill

Fall, Ignorance, Ideas

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It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

Robert Scheer

Running, Strong, War

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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

House, Lines, Rats

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Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

Peter Gavin Hall

Pigeons, Theater, Dump

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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

Thinking, Dollars, Stills

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When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

Allan Sloan

Jobs, Writing, Years

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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Walter Cronkite

Objectivity, Magazines, Opinion

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For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

Michael Musto

Book, Years, Ideas

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Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

Rory Bremner

Demand, Nervous

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Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

Jimmy Breslin

Writing, Quality, Rage

1990 In The Times, 9 May

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I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.

Ann Veneman

Thinking, Safety, Brain

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I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

Toby Young

Humorous, Writing, Thinking

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

Tina Brown

Fun, Ideas, Perception

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The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Ethel Merman

Book, Giving, Gossip

"Merman: an autobiography".

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