Evan Esar Quotes

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

Evan Esar

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• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Life
  • Country
  • Right

• It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Easy
  • Chinese
  • Films

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • May
  • Movies
  • Old

• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Religion
  • Punishment

• I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

  

  Jane Roberts

• I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Food

• The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

  

  Pele
  • World
  • Football
  • English

• I don't know what my daughter will become.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Daughter

• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Hair

• Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Kids
  • Nice

• One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

• The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

  

  Derek Fisher
  • God
  • Power
  • Doubt

• My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

  

  Krista Tippett
  • People
  • Depression
  • Divorce

• Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Running

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Letters
  • Depends
  • Melody

• I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I am down! I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a bad ass fairy.

  

  Katrina Law
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Wonder

• Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Consistency
  • Vulgar
  • Jewel