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

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

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.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

A man is as young as his spinal column.

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.

Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

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.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

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

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.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.

Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

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

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.

I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

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 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.

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.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

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

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

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.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.

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

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

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

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

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

If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

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

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

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!

A column about errors will contain errors.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.