Evan Esar Quotes

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

Evan Esar

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• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Think
  • Doing

• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Matters

• I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Good
  • Think
  • Competition

• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Dinosaur

• But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Chance

• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Career
  • Start

• I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • America
  • Think

• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Poetry

• I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Keep

• I don't think fashion is evil.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Evil

• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Think
  • Support
  • Learn

• I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Choose

• Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

  

  Allan Lokos
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Thoughts

• The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Conflict
  • Israel
  • Heights

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Body
  • Old
  • Bold

• At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she – or he – would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Way

• Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Think
  • Insulting
  • Spoke