Columns Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

  George Jackson

  Reading, Black, Savages

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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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 bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Email, Literature, I Can

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• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

  Daniel Okrent

  Writing, People, Choices

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• 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 has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.

  Guy Ritchie

  Games, Names, World

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• A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Book, Men

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• Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

  Dave Barry

  Crazy, Reading, Literature

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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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• 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 are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Community, States, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• 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 of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

  Jo Bonner

  Country, Home, Writing

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• 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 got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  Candace Bushnell

  Party, Europe, Gossip

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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