Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Russell Baker

Russell Baker US columnist & journalist (1925 - )


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- The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

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- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

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- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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- New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

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- 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.

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- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

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- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.