“When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.”
Car
“You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.”
SmileAll Quotes by Russell Baker
“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.”
Car“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”
Best“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
Nature“There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.”
Business“Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.”
Change“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.”
Age“Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.”
Fear“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.”
Poetry“The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.”
Business“Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.”
Age“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”
History“You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.”
Smile“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.”
Business“Americans like fat books and thin women.”
Women“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
Parenting“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”
Science“What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.”
Home“Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.”
Poetry“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”
Society