Russell (Wayne) Baker quotes - Page : 2

" This may be why New Yorkers instinctively avoid making eye contact with each other in crowded places, why they "look right through you," as dismayed visitors often complain. They are not looking right through you at all; they are discreetly avoiding an intrusion into your space. They sense the danger in a place where a one-degree temperature rise can mean an explosion. " # Lovers

" It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. " # Economy and Economics # Law and Lawyers # Change

" Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. " # Life and Living

" So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. " # Moon # Poverty and The Poor # Money

" Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. " # Things and Little Things # Science and Scientists # Work

" In America nothing dies easier than tradition. " # Tradition # America # Faith

" Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. " # Automobiles

" New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. " # Cities and City Life

" A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to. " # Happiness