Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
Russell BakerIn writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
Russell BakerIt takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.
Russell BakerThe 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....
Russell BakerSchoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
Russell BakerI am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.
Russell Baker