Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Trunk

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

Dan Coughlin

Hal's Sunday column was the best-read piece of journalism in Northeast Ohio.

Laurie Notaro

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.

Michael Kane

It didn't matter what else might be going on in her life, she had her column ready on time every week.

John Reed

I'll give him credit for any steps in the right direction, but I'm not moving him into the recommend column until he fixes all of it.

Will Rogers

I never lack material for my humor column when Congress is in session.

Brad Bellows

The current prices have moved projects from the possible to the probable column very quickly.

John Davidson

When you're on the wrong side of the ledger column like that, it's just fate. It's unexplainable.

Henry Markram

Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's what the neocortical column looks like.

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

P. J. O'Rourke

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Ken Auletta

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Leslie Moonves

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

Hugh Willoughby

This is the nailbiting time for forecasters, ... We're waiting for Bertha to make her turn to the northeast but there's some uncertainty about when it will happen.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Chad Myers

One way or another there are going to be pounding waves on the northeast coast.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

William Wilberforce

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

Quentin Jammer

He doesn't keep me up. I think the more you worry the worse you play. If you get too worried about him, you're going be worried about him on Sunday when you play and it's going take you out of your game.

Truman Capote

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Samuel Pepys

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Vance Havner

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

Sara Paretsky

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

Sara Paretsky

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Rose Wilder Lane

Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater proprietyand stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.