Eric Frank Russell Quotes

Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

Eric Frank Russell

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• I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Movie

• I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Kids
  • Marriage

• A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • Future
  • Helpful

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • New

• We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Talent
  • Possess
  • Anxious

• I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Felt
  • Worse

• Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day -- at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Time
  • Brain

• Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Art

• My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Believe
  • Damnation
  • Mutilates

• Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years

  

  E.D. Baker
  • Girl
  • Princess

• You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • World

• The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Character
  • Friends

• There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Words

• I’m Edward Clark. Born Edward Delacey. Now, apparently, Viscount Claridge.” He shut his eyes. “You can address me by my preferred title: you idiot.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Born
  • Idiot
  • Address

• Take back control of huge sums of money, 350 million pounds a week, and spend it on our priorities such as the NHS.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Money
  • Control

• I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Hope
  • Grief
  • Lasts

• I would expect another Scars album before another System album.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • System
  • Album
  • Scars

• Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

  

  Eric Frank Russell
  • Idiot
  • Manifest
  • Intimidating