Evan Esar Quotes

Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.

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• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Today
  • Like

• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Easy

• I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Character
  • Ambition
  • First

• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • See
  • Grace
  • Thanks

• Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.

  

  Edward Young

• I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • City

• There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.

  

  Colin Egglesfield
  • Good
  • Book

• I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • House

• In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.

  

  Danny McBride
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Gym

• The combination of a brand like Cartier and the immense heritage that India holds can go places.

  

  Mark Shand

• When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

  

  Alexis Arguello

• When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Success

• Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Good

• Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Wishes

• Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Play
  • Philosophy
  • Parent

• I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• I remember when MTV first put 'Linger' in heavy rotation, every time I walked into a diner or a hotel lobby, it was like, 'Jesus, man, here I am again.'

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Jesus

• A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Believe
  • Character

• Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.

  

  Evan Esar
  • People
  • Worry
  • Fat