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I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. — Robert Mankoff

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. — Ken Thompson

We could write an etiquette column for the gangbanger set. — Pepper Winters

My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.
(from "Wherein We Enter the Museum") — Kit Reed

It wasn't that I truly felt bad that I'd upset my mother - it was more that I hated any debits in her column. — Gillian Flynn

Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! — Ray Bradbury

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry

Leigh [Bowery ] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches. — Boy George

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house. — Dick Cavett

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. — Adrienne Clarkson

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don't feel like an idiot when you reread it. — Steve Albini

NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. — Bertolt Brecht

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. — W.P. Kinsella

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

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time. — Tony McCoy

Man is a column of blood, with a voice in it, he said. And when the voice is still, and he is only a column of blood, he is better. — D.H. Lawrence

Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo
Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo
Googly, googly, googly goo:
That's how we fill a column. — G.K. Chesterton

Thence, even as he gazed, a tiny column of smoke rose straight up into the still air. — Kenneth Grahame

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved. — David Plotz

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality. — Patricia Marx

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed. — George Bernard Shaw

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit. — Maureen Dowd

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' — John Sentamu

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did. — George Vecsey

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn

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

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

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. — Ovid

The animal kingdom has nothing else like this column of flesh and bone always in danger of toppling, this proud unsteady tower. — Rebecca Solnit

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. — Regina Brett

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column. — Troy Glaus

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly. — Barbra Streisand

There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered — Chuck Palahniuk

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s. — Hale Irwin

A column about errors will contain errors. — Bill Gold

He did a very good impression of a stone column. — Shannon Hale

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast. — George Burns

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. — Alexander Pope

The geologic column is a bunch of balarky. — Arthur C. Howard

I am here to win at life, love, and career. I dwell in the plus column, where I belong. — Anonymous

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column. — Robert Novak

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. — Dennis Ritchie

A man is as young as his spinal column. — Joseph Pilates

I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records. — Betty Wright

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm. — Colm Feore

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column. — Frederick Lenz

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

my advice column is going — Rachel Renee Russell

Face Book keeps asking me to complete my relationship status; I doubt it has the soul of a gossip magazine column's starving journalist. — Shahla Khan

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. — Philip K. Dick

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit. — William Safire

...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could. — Meg Wolitzer

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

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. — Don Marquis

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead. — Stephen King

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.' ...
'And I won't give up. — Christopher Paolini

Fame compensates for a column of wants. — Gertrude Atherton

It scarcely made a column of newspaper space, but it wrote headlines in their lives. — Erich Segal

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. — Edward Hoagland

Each dollar in my asset column was a great employee, working hard to make more employees and buy the boss a new Porsche. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. — William Safire

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

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere. — Candace Bushnell

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.) — Westbrook Pegler

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

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio. — William Safire

I don't write about my life in my column. — Dan Savage

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. — Peter Hall

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. — Walter Cronkite

One should always dress like a marble column. — Jackie Kennedy

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

There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts. — Gene Mauch

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

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper. — Eddie Trunk

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. — Laurie Notaro

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it! — Ken Thompson

She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column. — Robert Galbraith

The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents. — Sam Kean

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that. — Marissa Mayer

The astrological prediction for Libra in the "Your Stars Today" column — Terry Pratchett

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column. — George Vecsey

He considered shooting a column of fire at the nearest tour bus and blowing up the gas tank, but he decided that might be a tad dramatic. — Rick Riordan

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

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