Letter of Bertrand Russell
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell LowellI no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
Kurt RussellReputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell LowellAs life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
James Russell LowellChimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
Russell BanksAmericans like fat books and thin women.
Russell BakerPhysical punishment was, of course, not permitted, and we sought to mitigate aggression among the children themselves.
Dora RussellSo there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! t
Russell BakerIn creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell LowellThe goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell BakerDemocracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell LowellIs 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.
Russell BakerLife is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's find," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Russell BakerPeople who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Russell BakerPeople seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell BakerMotivations are too tangled and complex.
Russell BanksIn America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Russell BakerIt is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell LowellIf you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
Mark RussellBut on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
Russell Banks
