A.J. Russell Quotes

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

BTW, the roach's name is Max (courtesy of Brianna, "because of I had a puppy, I'd name him Max").

In spite of her cute little angelic face and pink sneakers, Brianna is actually a baby Tyrannosaurus rex. On STEROIDS!

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

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.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

The sparrow still falls.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

You've got to do things that promote what's important.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.