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Russell Baker Quotes

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 14, 1925

Topics

Sparkle Literature Brilliant English

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

Book Year Say Write Month Would

I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

Matthew McGrory

Time Shoes Done Chicago Out Left

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

Women Value People Parent Better

Describing something as the 'Woodstock of...' has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering.

Gathering Mean Woodstock Something

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

History Time Hands Recognition She

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Siegfried Sassoon

Men I Am War Fighting Political

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Family Bird Feel Fish Lizard Orphan

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

Friend Home Children Parents Help

Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don't forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: 'The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.'

Friend Best Me Door Reputation Know

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Sydney J. Harris

Philosophy Any Put Belongs Nutshell

In the end, I realized that I just didn't like acting enough to put up with the stereotype and I didn't really think I was good enough to transcend it.

Good Think End Enough Acting Up

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Music Energy You Late Accountant

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