Evan Esar Quotes

The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Question
  • Goals

• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Design
  • Shoes
  • Create

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
  • Generation
  • Talk

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Things
  • Name
  • Straight

• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confusion

• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Find

• Give peace a chance.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Chance
  • Give

• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Home
  • Food
  • Nice

• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • You
  • Humor
  • Got

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.

  

  Arthur Machen
  • Eyes

• How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Experience
  • Science

• Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

  

  Francois Rabelais
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Science

• The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Men
  • Science
  • Passion

• Could someone please tell me how this will affect me? Come on, this is Harvard, folks. I came all the way out here to learn this.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

  

  Epictetus
  • Complain
  • Wail
  • Clad

• The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Science
  • Prove
  • Statistics