Quotes by Russell Baker
31 quotes by Russell Baker
Russell Baker - american Journalist
Was born on 14 aug 1925.
Origin country: United States
A new star with a tremendous national appeal, the skill of a consummate showman.
Quote by Russell Baker about celebrity
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
Quote by Russell Baker about city
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Quote by Russell Baker about suffering, power
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, public
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Quote by Russell Baker about children
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world
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 by Russell Baker about poetry, world
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
Quote by Russell Baker about fashion, love, age, olderness
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Quote by Russell Baker about objects, work
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine", and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Quote by Russell Baker about life
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Quote by Russell Baker about objects, work
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Quote by Russell Baker about pleasure, people, things
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Quote by Russell Baker about bad, old, olderness, people
