Column Quotes

• I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

  

  Alessandro Volta
  • Fingers
  • Silver
  • Metal

• I'll give him credit for any steps in the right direction, but I'm not moving him into the recommend column until he fixes all of it.

  

  John Reed
  • Moving
  • Credit
  • Steps

• I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Write
  • Papers
  • Washington Post

• I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Clay Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Attention
  • Destroying
  • The Voice

• I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.

  

  David Plotz
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Profound

• Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip of Jules Feiffer. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Racist
  • Editor
  • Column

• A column about errors will contain errors.

  

  Bill Gold
  • Errors
  • Column

• Fame compensates for a column of wants.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Fame
  • Wants
  • Column