Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own. — 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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.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 going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for… — Russell Lynes Copy Share
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
