Columns famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
-- Allan Sloan -
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.
-- Andy Richter -
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
-- Dick Schaap -
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
-- Edward Hoagland -
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.
-- Ellen Goodman -
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.
-- Ferdinand Mount -
Fame compensates for a column of wants.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
-- Maureen Dowd -
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
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 -
Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
-- Rory Bremner -
Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
-- Ian Jack -
I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
-- Joel Stein