Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Russell Wayne Bakeris an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth14 August 1925
CityMorrisonville, VA
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational funny travel
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
real work writing
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.
education learned-person information
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
history progress done
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
facts breaking-down scientist
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.
funny break-up work
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
funny science car
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.
jobs war thinking
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.'
too-much problem enough
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
thinking vegetables cities
The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.