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

• 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

• I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Popular
  • Moon
  • Humans

• All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

  

  John Calvin
  • Good
  • Labor
  • Created

• The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Teaching
  • Consistency
  • Experiments

• My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Photography
  • Cameras
  • Instruments

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

  

  Evan Esar
  • Consistency
  • Vulgar
  • Jewel