A.J. Russell Quotes

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

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs.

I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.

I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

All movements go too far.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no.

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.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.