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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

Evangelista Torricelli

Air, Weight, Mercury

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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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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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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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And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

Robert Scheer

Fire, Voice, People

"LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2005.

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The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Michael Lewis

Sports, Echoes, World

"Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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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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This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

Holly Johnson

Mean, Hype, Sound

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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

Ferdinand Mount

Writing, Taking A Break, Dear

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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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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 columns and be envied for the money you made.

Elia Kazan

Successful, Gossip, Made

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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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In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

James L. Barksdale

Technology, People, Way

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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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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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