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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with R >> Quotes By Russell Baker |
| Quote #1: | "Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity." |
| Quote #2: | "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." |
| Quote #3: | "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." |
| Quote #4: | "Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it." |
| Quote #5: | "People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure." |
| Quote #6: | "The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any." |
| Quote #7: | "Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." |
| Quote #8: | "The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him." |
| Quote #9: | "Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost." |
| Quote #10: | "People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately." |
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