Evan Esar Quotes

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

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• Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Physical
  • Hardships

• Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Moment

• Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • City
  • Sports

• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • America
  • Army
  • Economy

• Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Different
  • Home
  • Stealing

• I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Research

• I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Past

• Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Women
  • Tennis
  • Half

• I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Song

• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Time
  • Good

• History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

  

  David Weinberger
  • Important
  • History

• I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason

• There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do what we do. We also need to be more open to the idea that any one input - in this case, polls - may not be the only way to hear what people are saying.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• 'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

  

  Jim Beaver

• If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz
  • Why
  • Rock
  • Star

• I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself.

  

  Luke Benward
  • Career
  • Amazing

• The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

  

  Jessie J
  • Music
  • Personality

• Animals are born, are sentient and are mortal. In these things they resemble man. In their superficial anatomy - less in their deep anatomy - in their habits, in their time, in their physical capacities, they differ from man. They are both like and unlike.

  

  John Berger
  • Time
  • Deep

• The car (FT86) is not only FUN to drive, but in terms of quality and precision of handling, the car has very much surpassed any expectations I had. More easily put, if you had blind folded me and told me this was a new creation by BMW's M department, I would not even hesitate to believe you. It's that good.

  

  Keiichi Tsuchiya
  • Car
  • Creation
  • Expectations

• It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Law
  • Laugh

• I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Book
  • True
  • Reading

• All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.

  

  Alan Patricof
  • Great
  • American
  • Value

• Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Car
  • Neighbor