E.S. Russell Quotes

I am not a ventriloquist.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have

Everyone has their own mantra.

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

Consciousness does affect matter.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.

I'll not be changing, but America will.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek

The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.

If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.

It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".