#si

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. ↗

— Russell Baker

#began #between #coded #gave #hostile

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. ↗

— Russell Baker

#cars #comes #cowards #fools #only

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. ↗

— Russell Baker

#earth #feel #history #like #makes

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. ↗

— Russell Baker

#age #beloved #confessing #else #fashion

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

#emma #especially #figures #flamboyant #good

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. ↗

— Russell Baker

#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#classic #grandmother #guidance #his #his way

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#i #just #lot #person #real

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. ↗

— Russell Baker

#computer #databases #day #fitting #glass

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration. ↗

— Russell Baker

#clear #crisis #dealing #economic #economic crisis