American Columnist Quotes

Daniel Pipes

Robert Cormier

Oliver North

Dan Savage

Mike Royko

Chuck Klosterman

Herb Caen

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

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.

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

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

Behold the mighty Dinosaur, Famous in prehistoric lore, Not only for his weight and strength But for his intellectual length. You will observe by these remains The creature had two sets of brains— One in his head (the usual place), The other at his spinal base. Thus he could reason a priori As well as a posteriori.

Bert Leston Taylor

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

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.

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

William E. Vaughan

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

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

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

We're going to see this again and again: not just a disinterest in Trump's copious conflicts of interest, but a willingness to parrot whatever ludicrous defense Trump makes of them.

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.

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

I know there's no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will scream out for this. That one speck of my soul will still exist and be left trapped and wanting. For you. For the light. For anything.

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.

Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

Leonard Koppett

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.

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

Some people just don't appreciate having a dog around. It's sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that way—maybe that's why she could never be truly happy.

W. Bruce Cameron

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.

We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.

Rachel Held Evans