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Letter "R" » Russell Baker Quotes
«The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.»
«Is 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.»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
desperately, efficiency, fuel, shoot down, shot
«So 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!»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
agonies, bungler, bunglers, chemicals, magnificent, metal, The Office, undergoing, wire
«It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Law and lawyers,
Life
| Keywords:
American Life, enriches, inevitably, uneconomic
«There are no liberals behind steering wheels»
«Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.»
«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.»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| About:
Happiness,
Problems,
Solution
| Keywords:
prescription, prescriptions
«Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.»
«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.»
«Americans like fat books and thin women.»
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