Columnist Quotations

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.

The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.

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.

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

I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis.

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

No one likes to be ticketed for double-parking. That is no excuse for you to tolerate columnist Carmine Santa Maria's use of profanity and otherwise vulgar and disrespectful language in excoriating traffic enforcement agents who do their duty.

Names sell newspapers, there's no doubt about it. If you know that on a certain day, a certain columnist is holding forth on a certain topic, that can sell a few papers.

Roberts pulled out of the 1998 Masters after breaking two ribs while sneezing. The sneeze 'sent me to my knees and I kind of felt something pop,' he reported. Wrote Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty: 'He was lucky. If it had been a (lower intestinal emission), he might have shattered his pelvis.'

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So, too, for reporters who routinely write stories using morgue clippings for background, or who work to catch up on a competitor?s reportage and err by not independently confirming every single detail. So, too, for every columnist who ever used reported material -- either his own newspaper?s or that of another -- as the given terrain on which to maneuver. A lot of people need to be fired, apparently.

Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

The interesting thing will be if the public sees through that - and thinks, I'll get a little more balanced view if I go over to my local news outlet and get the information there. Because the columnist that I read there is going to be a little more balanced than the guy who's paid by the team.