Russell Lynes Quotes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Russell Lynes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleLookGoalDownTrueNever

I am very tenacious.

Jenny Craig

I AmTenaciousVeryAm

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

John Grierson

OpinionOpinionsWrongUnderstand

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

MomMotherhoodEverythingEffect

I think it's hard to put a finger on my music. My music has always been an amalgamation of everything I listen to, which includes everything and anything under the sun. Hip-hop to country to R&B to pop, all the things I'm inspired by find a way into what I do.

Travie McCoy

MusicSunThinkFindCountryWay

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Tom Stoppard

ChildrenRespectWordsWorldThink

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

Mary Steenburgen

MoneyNew YorkFeelYouNewBecause

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

MoneyCorruptionToo MuchAvailable

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Jon Oringer

ThinkIndependenceEntrepreneurBeing

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that 'shining city on a hill.' And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can't do it on the cheap.

Colin Powell

CityStandFindingConversationHill

My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.

Tim Walberg

HealthServiceMedicalPeopleFree

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

Rickey Henderson

PeopleYouLookNumbersFameSome

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

Marianne Faithfull

ReputationYouLoseEverythingYour

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