Evan Esar Quotes

A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Work
  • Year
  • Chill

• I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Myself

• The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Fall

• I have always believed in quality work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Always

• I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Business
  • Risk

• When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Work
  • Done
  • Art

• I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Work
  • Night

• It's very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because 'Breaking Bad' is so special. It's great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you're doing good work.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• We have much work ahead, to stand still.

  

  Said Musa
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Ahead

• While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that we are spending too much of our time testing.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• On my wedding day, I gifted my wife a platinum ring.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Day
  • Wife
  • Wedding

• I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Small

• Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

  

  John Hurt
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Lazy

• I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

  

  Denise Mina

• We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Democracy

• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Free
  • Woman
  • Relationships

• Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.

  

  Avi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Why

• A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Work
  • Wedding
  • Boss