Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Quote by Russell Baker
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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Russell Baker Quotes
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
- 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.
- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- 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.
- Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
- The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
- Americans like fat books and thin women.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
- You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.