Evan Esar Quotes

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Science
  • Intelligence

• I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Interesting
  • Learning
  • Thought

• A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

  

  Alan Ayckbourn
  • She
  • Comedy
  • Eyes

• Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Why

• It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Great
  • Political
  • Action

• I am wholesome.

  

  Andrea Corr

• I want to keep trying something new all the time. It is the only way to grow.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Time
  • Trying

• There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford

• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Understanding

• Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Live
  • Art

• There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.

  

  Empedocles
  • Gods
  • Ancient
  • Necessity

• It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Crisis
  • Scientist
  • Philosopher

• I think there is a real art to walkabouts.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Real
  • Art
  • Think

• O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Night
  • Heaven

• Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Art
  • Means
  • Garage