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Russell Baker
American columnist & journalist
| “ | Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. | ” |
| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. | ” |
| “ | People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. | ” |
| “ | People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
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| “ | The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. | ” |
| “ | The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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| “ | Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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