Evan Esar Quotes
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.Evan Esar
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
Nancy Roman -
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot -
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
Dan Jenkins -
If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons -
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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You were born as the one you are.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
Kate Moss -
Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
Ingvar Kamprad -
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann -
When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
Taylor Swift -
The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
Karl Schroeder
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
Barack Obama -
It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
Edith Sitwell -
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
Walter Benjamin -
One must be something in order to do something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
John Adams -
If you get beyond the political rhetoric and assembled a group to solve Social Security it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
Alan Greenspan
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift -
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
John Witherspoon -
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar