Quotes about Column

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space. Votes: 4

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm. Votes: 3

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland. Votes: 3

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks. Votes: 3

The world is divided into two classes of people: the few who make good on their promises and the many who don't; get in Column A and stay there. You'll be valuable wherever you go. Votes: 3

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Votes: 2

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. Votes: 2

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. Votes: 2

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time. Votes: 2

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's what the neocortical column looks like. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere. Votes: 2

Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt. Votes: 2

I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters. Votes: 2

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. Votes: 2

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense. Votes: 2

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' Votes: 2

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. Votes: 2

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again. Votes: 2

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner. Votes: 2

A column about errors will contain errors. Votes: 0

Fame compensates for a column of wants. Votes: 0

А weekly column is really tough. Votes: 0

The geologic column is a bunch of balarky. Votes: 0

One should always dress like a marble column. Votes: 0

A man is as young as his spinal column. Votes: 0

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. Votes: 0

I don't write about my life in my column. Votes: 0

He did a very good impression of a stone column. Votes: 0

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper. Votes: 0

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality. Votes: 0

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column. Votes: 0

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it. Votes: 0

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.) Votes: 0

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers. Votes: 0

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. Votes: 0

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. Votes: 0

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. Votes: 0

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years. Votes: 0

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast. Votes: 0

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. Votes: 0

I would encourage people to go to NYTIMES.com and read this column and you can see for yourself. Votes: 0

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. Votes: 0

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid. Votes: 0

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit. Votes: 0

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. Votes: 0

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. Votes: 0

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. Votes: 0

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. Votes: 0

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish. Votes: 0

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen. Votes: 0

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column. Votes: 0

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column. Votes: 0

So you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election. Votes: 0

I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else. That was in that column right there. Votes: 0

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. Votes: 0

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. Votes: 0

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. Votes: 0

I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records. Votes: 0

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don't feel like an idiot when you reread it. Votes: 0

Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. Votes: 0

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. Votes: 0

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. Votes: 0

There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts. Votes: 0

Leigh [Bowery ] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches. Votes: 0

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column. Votes: 0

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. Votes: 0

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved. Votes: 0

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. Votes: 0

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s. Votes: 0

Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly! Votes: 0

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up. Votes: 0

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio. Votes: 0

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about! Votes: 0

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit. Votes: 0

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column. Votes: 0

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column. Votes: 0

The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison. Votes: 0

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it! Votes: 0

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly. Votes: 0

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators. Votes: 0

The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven. Votes: 0

The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York. Votes: 0

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again. Votes: 0

Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records. Votes: 0

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles. Votes: 0

We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet. Votes: 0

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. Votes: 0

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer. Votes: 0

I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration. Votes: 0

I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers. Votes: 0

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.' Votes: 0

I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me. Votes: 0

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates. Votes: 0

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee. Votes: 0

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things. Votes: 0

I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column. Votes: 0

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless. Votes: 0

You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that. Votes: 0

But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as journalists. That's why [Vladimir] Putin's "fifth column" is that powerful in the West. Votes: 0