Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
