Evan Esar Quotes

A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.

Evan Esar

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• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • Beat
  • Earned

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Beat
  • Fighters

• There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Business
  • Show
  • Beat

• If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • You
  • Eye
  • Beat

• When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • War
  • End
  • Loser

• I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • See
  • Loser

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

• There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Force
  • Beat

• We didn't get any stops. We are trying to get better defensively but we got beat by 30 points, so obviously we are not getting better defensively. ... Obviously if you get beat by 30 points then the coach can question your effort.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Question
  • Effort

• Scott will be desperate to beat us. He's one of the most talented coaches in world rugby and has done excellent work with Wales.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Dance
  • Beat
  • Windshield

• To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Loser

• Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Time
  • War
  • Support

• Anytime we'd beat the Yankees one game it was like beating somebody else three.

  

  Frank Lane
  • Game
  • Beat
  • Yankees

• He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Winning
  • Loser
  • Sarcastic

• It feels good anytime you beat Texas and Tennessee. Wins over those great coaches are very special.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Texas
  • Coaches
  • Beat

• He had a thousand-year-old stare.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Stare

• i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Dies

• If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Soul
  • Perfect
  • Lonely

• I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Study

• A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Beat
  • Loser
  • All Right