Columns Quotes - Page 10

• The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was a grand and glorious spectacle, and it was impossible to look at it without admiration.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  War, Distance, Eye

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• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in the win or loss column. Lives will be lost. Eternities will be shaped. Destinies will either be discovered or dismissed. Dreams will be attained or relinquished.

  Tony Evans

  Dream, War, Loss

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.9, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches.

  William A. Rusher

  Writing, Criticism, Dollars

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Editors, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

  Bob Colacello

  Art, Taken, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

  Joel Stein

  Kids, Hungry, Wanted

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Writing, Air, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

  Eric Alterman

  Song, Air, Ipods

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• Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

  John Oliver

  Teenager, Fall, Wind

  "John Oliver On Facts, Donald Trump And The Supreme Court For Dogs". Interview with Steve Inskeep, ijpr.org. February 10, 2017.

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• I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they must be the strangest person in the world. They don't fit in to the religious milieu of their communities. It doesn't make any sense to them. They read some of my columns and they know that there's somebody in the world at least as crazy as they are, and so they write and say is there anybody else?

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Crazy, Writing

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• [My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition.

  Michelle Singletary

  Grandmother, Giving, Credit

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund. In truth, the name of the column, "The Color of Money," has less to do with my race than the fact that the color of money is green and it's green we all need to live a good life.

  Michelle Singletary

  Retirement, Good Life, Kids

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing we had seen in the business section. Everyday people were writing that finally someone was speaking to them in a way that was understandable. I think we were all shocked at how many readers wrote in to say that they too had a Big Mama who taught them about money.

  Michelle Singletary

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

  Paul Newman

  Sleep, Heart, Stuff

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• When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Care

  "Dave Barry's Mix of Over the Top Humor, Seriousness Reflects 'Insanity' of Miami". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2013.

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• I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

  Joel Stein

  Writing, Sushi

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

  Joel Stein

  People, Marketing, Networking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

  Joel Stein

  Running, Pushing It, Really Sad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Latin, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"

  Roger Ebert

  Get Well, Writing, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can be as a journalist. I attribute some of this success to my ability to haggle. The main thing in this game is to ask for money and when they tell you the amount you say, "no, I want more".

  Giles Coren

  Writing, Games, Two

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• Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

  Jesse Jackson

  Writing, Names, Freedom Of The Press

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race". Interview With Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. December 30, 2010.

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• When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.

  Simon Hoggart

  Writing, Interesting, Gossip

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Hack a phone? I wouldn't know how..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

  Maureen Dowd

  Journalism, Natural, Form

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