A.J. Russell Quotes

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

In the wave lies the secret of creation.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?

People who say the system works work for the system.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.