Columns Quotations

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

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.

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

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

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.

I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

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.

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

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

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

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

I was the first blogger on the 'Times''s website. That happened during the Iraq war, when I wanted an outlet for the things I was seeing every day that couldn't fit into just two columns a week. Then I became interested in using multimedia, specifically as a way to engage young people.

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.

I don't write about my life in my column.

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.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

One of the distinctive elements is the tongue and groove ceilings. The roofs are designed to look like an inverted Noah's ark. They also have faux columns made of wood but painted to resemble marble, the stone used to build the cathedrals and churches left behind in the old country.

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

If anyone really wants to get prisoners released, the last thing he should do to encourage it is to continue with this process, because not one of us will countenance release of prisoners on the background of columns of smoke in the territories,

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

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.

It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate.

Using that basic unit, we developed the columns and the branches that form the sculpture.

We are thrilled, along with The Columns Group, to be part of such an outstanding team of award-winning agents committed to aggressively moving our business forward. There is a need in the marketplace, and we have assembled the right team to leverage this opportunity.

Traditional magazine companies couldn't imagine a launch like this. Relish is much more than a magazine. Consumers can come to the Web site, subscribe to the e-newsletter, and, uniquely, many will also receive Relish as syndicated columns within their newspaper as well. That's just the beginning. The key is the brand launches with a combination of consumer options, and advertisers can take advantage of the brand's engagement in many ways.

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.

The rebel columns have been entirely destroyed and there is now only some light weapon fire near the National Assembly, but the situation is now completely under control.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

We gutted the entire building, ... The only things left were the exterior walls, the columns and the floors.

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

The roof had heating elements in it because of the snow and ice build up, ... Rain and melted snow and ice would run down drainage pipes inside the (support) columns into an underground drainage system.

We're taking the extra effort everyday, looking for columns and being very aware of who's burning, whether it's controlled or whatever, what kind of permits are out there and everything.

But the longer we live, the more we appreciate what got us where we are. I am glad to see they have restored much of the original woodwork and these columns especially. If you've got this stuff, you ought not hide it.

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

The Newberry seemed the perfect place for Mike's papers, ... I'm sure he would be honored and humbled to know his columns and papers are in such good company with the works of his respected colleagues and those he admired. Now everything he saved, from his funny hand-written responses to readers to the get well letters he received, will be accessible to anyone who wants to see a more personal side of Mike.

Do it. You don't let the facts get in the way of one of your columns anyway.

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.

The marble columns will stand tall like silent sentinels and the busts of the great Americans which line the upper wall will study our every move-sometimes approvingly, more often than not with raised eyebrows. As always.

In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

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

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.

There were railroad spurs. You can see remnants of the boiler, compressor is still there, a giant lathe where they turned the columns on,

It seems to me that it's a fairly narrow market that's going to pay for the privilege of reading columns by Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman and such,

To any engineer looking at this, you would have immediate concerns because the columns are skinny and spaced far apart.

I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.

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

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

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

A man is as young as his spinal column.

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

When I heard the learned astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much a

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

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!

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