Columns Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Cutting, Glasses, Pieces

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

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Soccer, Writing, Six

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Self Confidence, Arrogance

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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tree, Her Beauty, England

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.5

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, People

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• 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.

  John Allen Paulos

  Fashion, Clothes, Astrology

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

  Carl Hiaasen

  Rotten, Shooting, Miami

  Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

  Richard Roeper

  Book, Order, Wit

  "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

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• A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Book, Men

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

  Allan Sloan

  Gold, Mediocrity, Constant

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• Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

  Rory Bremner

  Demand, Nervous

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

  George Burns

  Morning, Names, Breakfast

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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