E.S. Russell Quotes
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.
No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.
On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it.
If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....
There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.
Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?
Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.
A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.
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.
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.