American Columnist Quotes

Daniel Pipes

Robert Cormier

Oliver North

Dan Savage

Mike Royko

Chuck Klosterman

Herb Caen

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

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

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

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.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

George Matthew Adams

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

Margarita Engle

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

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

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

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

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

Chuck Klosterman

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.

I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

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.

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

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.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

Charles L. Allen

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

Aleksandar Hemon

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.

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.

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.

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

William E. Vaughan

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