Columns Quotes

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

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes `fiction from being to end`. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

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.

It ran wild all right. Mind you, although we blushed every time we read the critics` columns, many viewers wrote to say they liked the shows.

I don`t like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

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

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers` and the nation`s perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher`s choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

(Tierney also said that he did not have any more information on the case than any other Times reader, so he was reluctant to give an opinion. When asked if he could have at least acknowledged the issue in a column and written about how it is affecting the media or Washington, he dismissed such an approach.) An awful lot of my columns are not about Washington, ... I don`t have inside knowledge of this case and when I write a column, I try to say something that is original.

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

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.