Evan Esar Quotes

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

Evan Esar

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• I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fashion

• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Athlete

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Money
  • Wood
  • Corners

• Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Game
  • Religious
  • Years

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Know
  • Always
  • Sick

• I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Live
  • Records
  • Lifestyle

• For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Desire
  • Problem
  • Waiting

• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Health
  • Difficulties

• My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • True
  • Question

• I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories, and to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that, as a person, I don't want to take on.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Football
  • Player

• Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom,Far from all resort of mirth,Save the cricket on the hearth.

  

  John Milton
  • Light

• Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

  

  Simon McBurney
  • Say
  • Storytelling
  • Piece

• Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Character

• We can't tell whether the abrasion was caused by a brickbat, a gun, a knife or what.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Gun
  • Knife
  • Brickbat

• Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Death
  • Works
  • Burying