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

• 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

• 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

• And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

  

  Brittany Murphy

• My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Dance

• We're building our own New Jerusalem up the river. It's a world made by hand, now, one stone at a time, one board at a time, one hope at a time, one soul at a time.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

  

  Bobby Rahal

• The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • True
  • Texas

• I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

  

  Brian Chesky

• I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • World
  • Important
  • Family

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

  

  Evan Esar
  • Hope
  • Disappointment
  • Veneer