20th-century Columnist Quotes

Joan Collins

Arianna Huffington

Taslima Nasrin

Daniel Pipes

Robert Cormier

Oliver North

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 rule of thumb in the matter of medical advice is to take everything any doctor says with a grain of aspirin.

There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

Having exposed its fangs publicly, Washington will not readily admit it miscalculated horribly. If Modi comes to power, a working relationship with the US Embassy will be established. But let us have no doubts that the repair job will also be accompanied by surreptitious attempts to undermine him.

Swapan Dasgupta

The best employees are show-offs. They know they're good and want a chance to prove it. They want to get into the game.

Conversely, banning this book would send a signal that the present establishment will do what it can to prevent Hinduism from rising up, from regaining self-confidence, from facing the challenge of hostile ideologies.

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.

Arianna Huffington

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

The hard left, now in control almost everywhere, no longer make any pretense at respect for the U.S. Constitution or for the freedoms it was once supposed to guarantee. They are openly turning America into a Communist country with institutions many times more expensively tyrannical than the amiable tea-tax collectors of good King George.

Christopher Monckton

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend.

My thoughts are like waffles—the first few don't look so good.

Marilyn vos Savant

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Steve Jobs has created his own precious little walled garden. He's looking more and more like Howard Hughes, holed up in his penthouse, making sure he doesn't come in contact with any germs. Now Google is saying, hey, nice garden, have fun sitting in it. By yourself.

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

Joan Rivers talking to Joan Collins about her marriages:

Joan Rivers: Which husband was the best lover?
Joan Collins: Yours.

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

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

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

Allison Pearson

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

William E. Vaughan

Marriage is like a warm bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

A tiny terror who wore brass knuckles on his tongue, he frequently retaliated with knockout assessments of those he judged disloyal or simply disliked.

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

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art.