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Russell Lynes Quotes

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1910 - September 14, 1991

Topics

Friends Accept Always Own Well Your

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

Success Myself Football People Game

I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.

People Week You Know Meet Need

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

Robert Rauschenberg

Color Picture Place More Same Than

I know everybody says that their bride was the 'most beautiful in the world.' They're wrong. I win.

Beautiful Win World Bride Wrong

There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'

Time Experience Win End You Cartoon

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

Ugly You Go Living Will Tattoos

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

Art Myself People You Go Kind

I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.

Girl Power Practice Black Bad Wrong

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

Time Clothes Year Long Long Time

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

People Society Create Different Each

I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.

Light Feet Camera You Housing Big

When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'

Brian Tyree Henry

Wall Three Old First Years Off

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