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

  Dan Savage

  Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Moving, Civilization, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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