20th-century Columnist Quotes

Joan Collins

Arianna Huffington

Taslima Nasrin

Daniel Pipes

Oliver North

Robert Cormier

Dan Savage

Our religion doesn't give women any human dignity. Women are considered slaves... I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don't wait for a convenient time. It can't be overemphasized.

Mike Michalowicz

Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald's contemporaries couldn't bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.

Sarah Churchwell

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

Further, it should be clear that meat in itself as protein is not much superior to eggs or nuts and could not alter the evolution of the brain – if this were so, this miracle food would have continued to enlarge humans' brain size in succeeding years when much greater amounts of meat were consumed.

In any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.

Bert Greene (cookbook author)

America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?

Craig Kielburger

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup... It is mothering without a net.

Sometimes, it s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It s like there s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn t know you.

Linwood Barclay

Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

William E. Vaughan

There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.

Women without men are usually nervous.... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

The most popular labour-saving device today is still a husband with money.

'The land of the free' is now the land of the free to be rude...

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.