Best Russell Baker Quotations
- Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. Advertising
- I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour...… Any
- The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings. Bell
- Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the… Afterward
- Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Poetry
- The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. Afflicted
- Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood,… Adult
- Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's… Age
- A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if… All
- After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together… Cliche
- There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables,… Alive
- Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and… All
- The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction. Ability
- Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes. Causes
- It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so… Brilliantly
- Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. American
- A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. Day
- A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting… Act
- The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. Best
- What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long. All
- Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T. Cartooning
- Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned… Educator
- New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. Cities
- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. All
- A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to. Any
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