Quotes About Russell

'SI' came to me and said, 'We want you to do a story on Russell as the greatest team player,' which I certainly agreed with.

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.

Now all the gang's dead except for me and Russell.

There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

The experience of riding in a subway or elevator calls to mind Bertrand Russell's remark that much of modern anxiety stems from the time we spend in unnatural proximity to strangers without the preliminary sniffing that is instinctive in animals, including us.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Decidability is impossible. We are back in the land of paradox, with Epimenides declaring that he is a liar and Bertrand Russell upsetting Frege's applecart

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

I've never said flange to a monkey!

Wide open! Some of these North Dakota towns made Russell, Kansas, look urban.)

Russell is a Platonic dialogue in himself.

Russell called the move "a lynching of orderly procedure in the Senate." Johnson's angry response—that "this was the only kind of lynching he had ever heard Russell object to"—was blurted out only in private

So nearly everyone had an opinion. Polls showed that most supported the Russell program, an informal name for Sax's plans to terraform the planet by all means possible, as fast as they could.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

I was afraid of the press.

A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Young man?" he raged. "Young man! It's a damned good thing you did retire, if that's all that remains of the great detective's mind!" And with that he snatched off his oversized cap. A pair of long blonde plaits slithered down the woollen garments, turning him into a her. Thus, my first meeting with Mary Russell.