Evan Esar Quotes

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

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• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Space
  • Resources
  • Weight

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Hallmark

• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Army
  • Africa

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Imagination

• People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Light
  • Humour
  • Hearted

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Charity

• I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Commitment
  • Will
  • Confident

• I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Job
  • Way
  • Singer

• I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

  

  Larry Page
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Man
  • Media
  • Creation

• I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

  

  Anna Maxwell Martin
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• People who wish to be lost always get their way.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • People
  • Lost
  • Wish

• I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Think
  • Value
  • Moment

• When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Song

• It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Good
  • Why
  • Help

• The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Secret