Evan Esar Quotes
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
Quotes to Explore
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
-
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
-
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
-
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
-
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
-
I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
-
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
-
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
-
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
-
We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
-
I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
-
I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.
-
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
-
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
-
Instagram is just a highlight reel... Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we're really boring.
-
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
-
I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
-
Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
-
I'm on Instagram more than any other social platform.
-
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
-
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
-
Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.
-
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
