Evan Esar Quotes

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

Evan Esar

• Feeling
• Admiration
• Resembles

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Hair

• If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Good
  • Song
  • Feeling

• One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Enemy

• Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Problems
  • Communication

• While I can always use a break from the gym, I like to swim and dive to keep myself feeling good.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Positive

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Real
  • Feeling

• To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Feeling

• In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat, and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Heart
  • She
  • Feeling

• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • True
  • Feeling

• The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • Feeling
  • Car

• After 'A Separation,' I found it much easier to work in Iran because I worked with very enthusiastic people who were very involved in the work, and that facilitated a number of things. It made it possible to iron out some of the difficulties found by other filmmakers in Iran.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • People
  • Work

• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Remember

• I probably have more friends from 'Twilight' than I've ever had in my whole life.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Twilight

• Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Feeling
  • Admiration
  • Resembles