Evan Esar Quotes

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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• I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Want
  • Basketball

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Lies

• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

  

  Halle Berry

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Present
  • Intelligent
  • Stock

• The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Political
  • Air

• My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Music
  • Father
  • Car

• I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Animal

• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Men
  • Law
  • Color

• If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music

• It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Important
  • Food

• I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

  

  Jennifer Ellison

• After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Time
  • Home
  • America

• People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

  

  Bill Plympton
  • People

• If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • America
  • Hope
  • Racism

• Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • True

• I was performing from the age of three.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Age

• Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Hope
  • Disappointment
  • Veneer