Russell Baker Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by Russell Baker
Russell Baker Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Russell Baker on Wise Famous Quotes.
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.