Column Quotations

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.

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.

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

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

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.

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

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.

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.

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.

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

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.

I think one of the problems when we discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict is people talk too much in terms of, 'What's your preference?,' like politics is a Chinese menu - I'll take one from column A and two from column B. That's not what politics is about.

Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at their papers. They'd write a cherished column for 30 years, and that was it. There was nothing else to do, no higher job to attain.

A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of Earth, Mars was assumed to be chock-a-block with animate beings, and its putative inhabitants got a lot of column inches and screen time.

My extensive experience and success providing families with sound financial advice and planning will give AOL users the background and tools to effectively manage their household finances. The monthly Rags to Riches column will show you how real people have done extraordinary things to get financially secure.

My focus is we won 79 games. That's a bad year. Anybody who sits in this seat and thinks that's acceptable, that's wrong. The urgency for me is to rectify coming off a bad year. If the White Sox hadn't won, we still have 79 in the win column and that's never going to be acceptable as long as I'm doing it, and we have to try like heck to get it fixed.

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

Since Ripken stopped playing baseball, parents are always asking for his opinion on issues. We want the column to be more interactive than anything. We are trying to re-brand him from a baseball player to a youth sports expert.

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

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

Forrest Mims is the author of the famous book 'Getting Started in Electronics,' published by RadioShack for many years. I bought the book in the 1980s and had a blast making the projects in it. When I was editor-in-chief of 'MAKE,' I asked Forrest to write a column for the magazine, called 'The Backyard Scientist.'

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.

I have a feeling that most of the actresses on the red carpet will follow the usual pattern of strapless column slinky dresses that show off their bodies. The new emphasis will be the back instead of the boobs -- but that doesn't mean there won't be plenty of implants.

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

He makes his claim about me after I've written a column sharply critical of his May 2004 budget reply, so that tells us a lot about what he says and why he says it. Things won't change much between journalists and politicians; Latham was a freak, a one-off.

Just wondered if you know the audience figures for the Brilliant 'Trisha Goddard show' on Five? Which show is doing best in that time slot? Also how is Five's 'Wright Stuff' doing against 'this morning'? Look forward to your column every week.

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

I was very pleased with the play of Laura Jones and Lindsey Hamilton too. Pushing the ball up and Laura getting into the scoring column and Lindsey hitting a big 3-pointer was also nice to see.

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

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

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.

The AP couldn't agree to either of these restrictions. Her skating is news and the embargo amounted to a news blackout. As for when a column is written, we believe that's for us to decide.

With the system we're running now, she doesn't have to be our star. We have 11 kids in the scoring column right now, so she doesn't have to carry the load for us this year.

We haven't seen the win column in a while. I was disappointed with our mental approach for this game. We were a little lackadaisical today.

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.

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

While nitrogen dioxide vertical column concentrations above central and eastern Europe and parts of the East Coast of the United States have been either static or exhibiting a small decrease, there is a clear and significant increase over China,

When Bob Novak wrote that column he wrote it for the Chicago Sun-Times. And I was not privy to who his sources were . . . that did not go through the editorial process at CNN. He has broken no laws and he has distinguished himself as a journalist for many, many years . . . He brings a different voice to our air.

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.

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

We responded to a call on a sawdust fire in the wood column shop. The call came about 10:30 p.m.

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.

What we are expecting is a blast of ash that will rise quickly up in the air tens of thousands of feet, form an ash column and then a big expanding ash cloud that will drift with the wind.

I used to write a column in there, called Genius, And How It Got That Way, they had asked me to write a column on the great comics in history.

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.

The satisfying thing is, right now we've put basically 16 games in the loss column between us and the next closest team in our division. When you can do that with 26 games to go, you're in pretty good shape.

There won't be horses that you ride on, but there's a background central decorative column of a steeplechase held every year, called the Iroquois Street Steeplechase.

Somebody who's used to writing a sports column looks at the game a little bit differently, I suspect, than somebody who's used to playing the game. I just think it's a different set of eyes.

Action taken by Japan today to halt U.S. beef imports is an unfortunate temporary setback to U.S. cattle producers, particularly in light of recent success to re-open the market. The vertebral column found in the shipments does not pose a health risk since the animal was less than 30 months of age.

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.

Publicly traded corporations and others with high visibility are reluctant to have their name in a column of contributors to Prop. 75.

People can sit back and look at Kobe and emulate him all they want. But the fact is that the teams that play together and have consistency throughout their lineup in the scoring column are going to win more than lose.

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.

I've always been a fan of football gaming as well as the Premiership and this allows me to pursue a new avenue, ... My column concentrates on the latest news and best bets for the week. I'm looking forward to writing for Covers.co.uk on a topic I'm truly passionate about.

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.

Initially, the cats would run full speed down the hall chasing each other, go up and over the top of the two couches and climb up the column and race along the beam and hit a dead end where it connected to the wall.

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.

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

Once people get past the initial shock of being asked to choose which column to read or which button to click on to enter the Web site, they'll see that the content is the same. When you look back, the civil rights movement has been portrayed as tearing apart the country. In retrospect, however, perhaps one of Dr. King's greatest legacies is the way in which he brought so many Americans together.

Any time you see a balanced scoring column like that, that's a mark of a good team.

They are now up in the win column and that's a good place to be. But I think the cases coming up in New Jersey... are going to be a little more of a true test of which way things go. These are long-term users. The ability of plaintiffs to argue causation will be substantially enhanced.

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.

I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

Generally any team that you see play, if you look at the stats column with turnovers there's going to be less at the end of the year. It gives us something to work on and improve on.

You want to be in the win column to start the second half of district and we're in a good position to take care of business. It's going to be a tough game at Odessa High and we're expecting that.

The current prices have moved projects from the possible to the probable column very quickly.

A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a great original thought on this.

As we approached, there was a large column of black smoke billowing from the far end of the base,

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.'

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.

It is unfortunate that Idaho has been down for the last 4-5 years. It happens. It's cyclical. Note the glorious Huskies. It's bad enough to have your team lose without having them kicked while they're down with an illogically-written column by a mediocre sportswriter with a chip on his shoulder stuck in Everett. Get a life.

This weekend is a huge deal. We're tied in the loss column and we have to win both to keep our hopes alive of hosting the MPSF championship. We're really the only two teams that hold their own destiny.

We fully expect to try to make the playoffs. We're five games out of the loss column and we're in first place in our division. These are the kind of games we have to get.

It's full-time work, wrestling, appearances and stuff. I couldn't put my full effort into a newspaper column and I'd probably do a lousy job at it.

I drive all over Indio looking for problems so that we stay out of your column. Our crew will take care of it, get rid of it, I didn't know it was there. It is a county facility but it's right next to City Hall, I'm very upset, we've been out of your column for a long time.

I don't think they thought I was a threat to Steve Pederson. They thought someone would read my column and be inspired to hurt his kids.

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