Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wrote a column once where I went to Bryant's grave and had this mock conversation with the Bear,

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate.

Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

Hal's Sunday column was the best-read piece of journalism in Northeast Ohio.

Laurie Notaro

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

Eddie Trunk

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

It didn't matter what else might be going on in her life, she had her column ready on time every week.

Jean Baudrillard

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

Allan Sloan

If a column is crying out for a good line and I can't come up with it, I troll for help. Communal humor is good, especially if you involve your boss.

Robertson Davies

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

Candace Bushnell

Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.

John Davidson

When you're on the wrong side of the ledger column like that, it's just fate. It's unexplainable.

This stopped the bleeding. You've got to get into the win column first. It was just sweet. We've got to savor the flavor of this one for a few days and then get ready for the Seahawks.

This stopped the bleeding, ... You've got to get into the win column first. It was just sweet. We've got to savor the flavor of this one for a few days and then get ready for the Seahawks.

Allan Sloan

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

Gregory Benford

Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.

Ellen Goodman

Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.

Bill Simmons

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

The rebel columns have been entirely destroyed and there is now only some light weapon fire near the National Assembly, but the situation is now completely under control.

Jonathan Turley

Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

Charlie Pierce

In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Jon Garland

When it comes down to it, it's one in the win column for the team. That's what really matters.

Mike Williams

We gutted the entire building, ... The only things left were the exterior walls, the columns and the floors.

I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.

Winston Churchill

The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness

Will Rogers

I never lack material for my humor column when Congress is in session.

John Reed

I'll give him credit for any steps in the right direction, but I'm not moving him into the recommend column until he fixes all of it.

Florence is probably the most dangerous game on our schedule due to the fact that they haven't been in the win column for so long. They hunger for a win.

Nicholas D. Kristof

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.

Contrascam, Olliegate, president-bashing, Iranamok-place any person or group in Column A, and the drearisome foursome in Column B. Then generate headlines to your heart's content.

Peter Lindbergh

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.