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.

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

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.

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

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

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

William E. Vaughan

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

Allison Pearson

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.

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

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

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

Leonard Koppett

Every single leader here, I can take to The Hague. Mark my word. I have it right here! And I am saying, Come, baby come!

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.

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

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Marjorie Holmes

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

Bert Greene (cookbook author)

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

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

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.