Hastings Russell

Famous quotes containing the words hastings and/or russell:

    If you can’t get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
    —Max Hastings (b. 1945)

    “There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
    That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
    A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
    So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
    Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)