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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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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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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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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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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I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

Ernie Pyle

Struggle, Thinking, Sick

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

Rory Bremner

Demand, Nervous

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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