Top 182 Columns Quotes & Sayings

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

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

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

For years I wrote newspaper columns mostly about the teams in my city. There was no cheering in the press box, and I fought to remain objective.

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

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

The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.

I always got appreciation for the columns I wrote for newspapers.

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested in what I believe.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

Sometimes I can write very angry columns, but I know that it doesn't work.

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

Judge my columns, enjoy my tweets. That's my philosophy.

I nrver make the front pages or the gossip columns.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

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

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

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

For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.

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.

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

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.

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the previous annum's worth of columns.

I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

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.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

I write my columns pretty carefully.

I write relationship columns for a couple of publications.

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

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.

Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow

Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.